Pros
Antenna is a good place to start your career. You do have the ability to learn the ropes of the PR industry and what it takes to work at an agency. The clients have cool tech, and some colleagues are truly kind people.
Cons
2022 was truly the last great year for the company, and I have no illusions that it will be able to reverse its downward spiral. 2023 and 2024 brought too many changes, both internal process and business strategy related, that were introduced way too fast. Upper-level management lost sight of actually caring for employees, making it clear their bottom line is most important. Its broader business strategies are having a negative domino effect on the rest of the company, especially after the hiring of the Executive Vice President of the Climate practice, who brought with her a decidedly toxic workplace culture. The agency is literally unrecognizable from when I first started. Additionally, the company cannot for the life of them keep the employees that actually make the workplace enjoyable. The truly rockstar employees either quit before they sunk with the rest of the company or were quietly and unfairly let go. The company is also too top-heavy, with not enough junior staff to support. Account directors and VPs do minimal work on accounts because they're stretched so thin, expecting the 1-2 junior staff to pick up the rest of the slack, even when junior staff is equally stretched thin. Many people at the Account Supervisor level and up are also high off their own power and extremely micromanage-y while being unable to do the work themselves. I've repeatedly seen poor-quality work delivered to clients because junior staff are expected to go along with whatever edits superiors make, even when unnecessary, and supervisors are only doing it to prove they are somehow better than you. Although they tout otherwise, salaries are much lower than the industry standard. The benefits are pretty standard but otherwise not revolutionary. If you are junior staff, get your few years of experience and then get out while you can.