Pros
Good times and good parties
Cons
They won’t let me campout at work
Pros
-Lots of opportunities to grow and expand skillset. -Employees are held accountable, but are also trusted to do a their job. There's really not any micro-managing happening - at least from what I've observed. -Management truly cares about employees and listens to critical feedback to improve processes and guidelines. -Regular check-ins with team leader to talk about what's going on with day-to-day tasks. -Wide variety of clients from different industries that keep work exciting. The agency size allows for individuals to be involved with multiple accounts. -Fun company culture with a good work/life balance.
Cons
-Processes do evolve regularly and it can be a lot to keep up with at times. The good part about this is that employees can provide feedback for how things should work and generally both team members and leadership are on board for trying out new ideas. -Since it's a smaller agency, it seems that career opportunities in some departments could be limited.
Pros
- Free M&Ms and free food.
Cons
- C-suite spends more effort on marketing a false version of itself to be purchased by a larger agency than developing successful business practices or aiding its dying culture. - Employees feel underappreciated, overworked, and afraid. There is no room for growth unless you can become a favorite of leadership. Nepotism is encouraged over achievements or expertise. Leadership has fired a considerable amount of people in the past year without warning and explanation. - No HR: No clear expectations of appropriate conduct, and often there are double standards. Leadership will leave early, come in late, and binge drink with clients. C-Suite will ask invasive questions of staff about their personal lives and offer unsolicited opinions. - Leadership bases all account strategy on gut feelings. Tactics and pitches are determined by what sounds cool. There are no strategists or researchers on staff. Leadership only uses data after-the-fact to give credence to intuition. Employees must navigate around the ignorance to deliver good work. - The culture is mistrustful, fearful, and egotistic. Senior management often makes former employees the butt of jokes. They also speak poorly of clients, C-Suite, and each other in front of junior employees. Junior employees often bully each other because they feel like they can only trust themselves. - Leadership often hires young people, underpay them, overwork them, and then lets them go.
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