Pros
- The chance to hone your skills using state of the art equipment and software for big name clients (for a few months at least until upper management runs them out of the door.) - Good for networking with people that can get you into other jobs when they leave for greener pastures -You can feel like you work at Jurassic Park! as constant tours for clients are led through the building speaking down on employees as if you were dumb and replaceable. -One of the few places you can cuss your head off (Unless you're against that, in which case prepare to be cussed out by the CEO in front of everyone just like he once did to a 70 year old pastor.) -If you've always wanted to sell pantyhose out of the back of a web marketing/computer repair business, then you've come to the right place! -No employee manual or training, just make it up as you go! But be prepared, they will not like whatever path you choose. -Watching the last few months as all of the best employees and clients begin making their exodus as the ship sinks.
Cons
- Micromanagement of creative projects by a CEO with absolutely no creative eye and complete disregard for his clients needs unless they meet his own. - Condescension and screaming are viewed as the only ways to get a job done properly - All of the "Creative Property" is stored on site, in a poorly temperature controlled room, on servers that cannot handle the weight of the business, behind a janky glass door. -The inability to go to lunch or the restroom during radio spot recordings because the "soundproof" recording studio has a hollow metal door, something the CEO thinks looks cool, but somehow does not understand is a good conductor for sound and the opposite of soundproof. -The only indoor video studio in the state that can be called for a rain day because of its uninsulated TIN roof and a drain stack running down the middle of it. -Large Cubicle Farm that is always hot and smells like B.O. -Backstabbing is rampant and encouraged, as the CEO likes to insight witch hunts for "Malcontents" -N.E.P.O.T.I.S.M - are you trying to work your way up the ladder here? I hope you share DNA then. -Sexism, racism, and homophobia are rampant. Are you a female? Then be prepared to dress in sexy outfits for photo shoots and videos. Are you a male? Then prepare to be mocked using a lispy "gay" voice in front of everyone. Are you a person of color? Well don't be surprised when upper management labels themselves a bunch of "white skin-heads" in an employee meeting. and NEVER EVER discuss being a liberal, the company only wants free-speech only if you look and talk just like them. -Watching a design be approved by everyone involved, including the customer, going live, and then watching the CEO suddenly get angry because he wasn't involved and dismantling the whole thing. -Jobs are quoted at twice the hourly rate that they are budgeted to employees, making for windfall profits for management, while crushing the employees with a pittance of time to finish. This makes it easy to keep employees feeling as they are doing a poor job, allowing them to stay overworked and underpaid, while management keeps raking in the money. If they deny this, ask them to see the paperwork. -Paid Lunch: According to iNET: means eating a sandwich while you continue working at your desk. -More security cameras than camaraderie. -A CEO who will write articles about his employees trash talking them. Search for an steve libbey bottle adventure if interested in finding more.