Great People, Great Work - Senior User Experience Designer MaxMedia Employee Review

- MaxMedia is a 24-year-old privately-held company with a strong and mature legacy of good work and great clients. And in that time, the company has reinvented itself several times. It’s an exciting and dynamic environment akin to a startup, in many ways. - MaxMedia benefits from the best employee culture I’ve had the chance to work in. The team is talented, friendly, funny, genuinely likes each other, gets sh*t done, and gets it done without drama. We have no room for drama or toxicity and that makes for a space where we’re all comfortable being more genuine and comfortable. - The culture and the leadership are very people-centric and innovative. We’ve recently experimented with innovations like a 4-day workweek, a revised and improved process, and a lot of introspective initiatives to be more mindful of how we work. - We do some really cool work for a wide variety of clients, from big Fortune 5s all the way down to consumer-product startups. And the work ranges from conventional digital agency deliverables like websites and apps to really complex and challenging projects like business-intelligence solutions, retail interaction strategies, and user-centered branding and communications. Cool sh*t. It really keeps my creative inner-squirrel engaged. - None of that #agencylife BS. I’ve got a great work-life balance. I turn off my email and Slack on weekend and vacations. - I bring my dogs (a jack russell-corgi mix and a rat terrier) to work with me almost every day. There are usually half-a-dozen dogs here and it’s amazing how disarming they are for employees and clients alike. So great.

- We have things we need to improve upon, internally and externally—but nothing we’re not aware of and aren’t trying to iterate upon.

Collaborative culture, flexible, relatively flat organization; Produce high-quality work, very good work-life balance - they don't make you work late nights all the time and don't overload you with too much work; Lots of opportunity to take on responsibility and lead - not a large hierarchy, so every decision doesn't have to go through a ton of people Open-minded - creative input can come from anyone... account people, PMs, office manager, etc. Conference attendance is encouraged - the company pays to send pretty much anyone who is interested to conferences across the country.. flight, hotel, tickets, everything. Anyone who goes to a conference comes back and presents key learnings to the entire staff so that everyone can benefit Company pays for some continuing education too so you can advance your career Lots of emphasis placed on rewards and recognition with monthly awards in the staff meetings, company outings off site, free summer fridays, extra holiday time off, etc.

agency is experiencing a lot of growth, so with that comes change; sometimes things are changed that don't make sense right away; need better onboarding for people - not a lot of hand-holding even during your first few weeks