Pros
As a junior in the media world, OMD gave some great opportunities to grow and meet likeminded people. As a starting salary it wasn't too bad compared to other offers I had gotten from competitors. If you put in the work to talk to other people it was great place to meet people and go out having fun evenings.
Cons
There was a profound lack of transparency regarding their graduate program. I joined as an executive but wasn't informed that I wasn't on the plan until 8 months after to which I missed out on the first increase. I was then added to the program with no explanation without back pay. When I was promoted I also wasn't informed I only found out via an email in my spam folder while clearing out my inbox. Their 3 day a week office mandate is a joke. There was no discussion on how to implement it and there was preferential treatment between the various teams which forced the teams actually coming in to come in at awkward times. There was no entity in place for social activities which ended up having execs running the social activities for the entire agency with very little support. Canteen was horrible. Bless some of the workers as they were lovely but it was always crowded, no where near enough seating. There is little to no inter team cooperation nor really any form of sharing good work around the agency hence it felt like each team was to their own. I also believe OMD should really review their hiring criteria as there have been several cases of inappropriate behaviour over the past year which should be taken more seriously and reminders should be shared more often around the agency. The team I was in was lovely however as we were a small team we would hardly ever get any callouts in the monthly connects as we just didn't have the people to vote for MVPs compared to teams of 20 or more. The amount of times I had to tell employees in the same agency what my team did said plenty.