Pros
- Meaningful and Impactful Work - Most of the employees are very nice, genuine, & friendly people and are pleasant and fun to work with - Offers a generous amount of PTO (more than you'll get at a lot of other jobs outside of this industry, but pretty much on par with other agencies in the same industry), as well as half-day Fridays in the summer. - Opportunities to learn and get hands on experience in the healthcare marketing industry for new or entry level folks
Cons
- Snow EXTREMELY underpays its employees. I literally doubled my salary making a lateral move to my new job. Compared to other jobs in the industry (or even in other less lucrative industries) Snow's pay is laughable. Snow always boasts about how it is the most profitable agency within its Parent Company, or that it was the only company in the network to be profitable during the pandemic...I'm sure that's only because its paying its employees half of what others in the network are paying theirs. Oftentimes you are so busy being overworked to even realize how little money you are making, which brings me to my next point... - Everyone at Snow is overworked and is managing way more than they can handle. Being busy and working long hours has always been a thing at Snow and is commoon in the industry, but its become a whole new problem at Snow lately since so many people have left for better paying jobs recently. Every single team and department is overworked. People are constantly at each others throats, scrambling and are making stupid mistakes because there is just too much going on for anyone to handle. Snow has a real problem with always saying yes and taking on new business, even if it doesn't have the employees to handle it. Its grown way too fast and the turnover has only increased. - The CEO is incredibly condescending, out of touch, and fake. She talks to the employees like they are children. She'll make empty threats, and any time a benefit is brought up, she has to jump in and remind you how grateful you should be to be recieving that benefit and to work at Snow. At every all-company meeting she fake cries to try to manipulate you into caring, which gets old very fast. Early in my tenure at Snow, it felt like I was part of a family and she was at the center of it. But it is quite the opposite now, things are very toxic, especially with upper leadership. I gaurantee you that the 5-star reviews on Glassdoor that say "everything is great!" and "there are no negatives to working here!" are written by her or someone close to her to save face. -If you live anywhere in southern Virginia, you will be forced to make the commute into Williamsburg. Doesn't matter if you live an hour or 90 minutes away. You'll be forced to come into the office which is contstantly falling apart and has no privacy; the working spaces are just a bunch of desks pushed together, you won't have a private office, cubicle, or workspace. Meanwhile, 1/3 of the company is full time remote and Snow operated perfectly fine remotely during COVID before employees were sent back. - The HR department is one person who lives in Florida.