Pros
- Had the opportunity to work with some pretty big name clients - Stocked snack bar provided for employees in office - 7 hour Fridays and private parking lot
Cons
- Response to stay at home measures was less than ideal, especially since they didn’t want us to WFH. For a digital marketing agency, they don’t provide their employees with laptops or easily accessible equipment. Instead, there are PC towers and maybe 5 laptops the company has that can be loaned out (which always seems to be loaned out). When working remotely due to stay at home orders, we had to use our own equipment and we were encouraged to download work related items on our personal computers to meet company requirements. - Toxic work environment. Aside from favoritism, a streaming gossip mill, and micro-management beyond belief, this company is the furthest thing from trustworthy or innovative. New ideas that could truly help improve work flows, SOPs, etc are always ignored nor never considered or taken seriously. If it’s not the Ignite way, it’s not happening. To touch on micromanagement, you would think for an 80+ person company with grown adults/professionals, the CEOs would trust you, however that is the furthest thing from true. - Lack of company culture and values. All the company really cares about is money coming in. Sure, business is business however much of the upper management does not follow the company's core values nor do they value their employees and clients are not the nicest 70% of the time. - Lack of accountability. Anytime something goes wrong with a client, its finger pointing and people being thrown under the bus. You’re constantly asked to update documents and spreadsheets just to have the same information in numerous places and takes away from actual client tasks. Directors are extremely disorganized and the Sales team is very disconnected from the services they sell which leads to many issues with clients later down the road. Lots of guarantees and over promise to close a deal when its simply not realistic. - The company says they have an open door policy but really, they never make the time to discuss issues and when they do make time, they simply shut you down with irrational, narcissistic reasoning. - Outside of the stay at home measures, work from home is very much a privilege and frowned upon by upper management. You only earn your 1 WFH day after a year of employment, so not much to look forward to there.
