It's a career, energy and creativity killer. Wait 2 years before joining to see if new management improves this place.
Pros
Most people were nice and friendly. Well located office, easy to commute and park, unlike NYC. This place is convenient for NJ folks who simply do not want to go to the city. This is the only pro so don't get lured.
Cons
I cannot say how this place will turn out as there is new senior management and they seem ambitious and dynamic. I hope they somehow save this place for the NJ talent. But as of recently, this place is a Titanic and I wish I had taken the offer of a genuine agency, that I passed on for this hack dressed as a king. For the time I spent there, it was pretty much a complete bait and switch. A black mark on your resume (this is no FCB NY or Area 23) unless you want to tread your way through similar gigs for the rest of your life or you are a senior with plenty of experience and some campaigns under your belt. Basically, at the interview, two CDs (who themselves since left after seeing this ongoing disaster), have outlined what I would be working on and it looked like a great position. Fast forward few months, I am still on random brand that just needed help (never placed on brands that I was hired for), with manager who was completely disinterested in teaching anything and soon was fired, and I was put on dead end brand with dead end collateral that was unmanageable, uncreative and ended up firing agency anyway. Fast forward few months, lot of us still didn't have team, working on odds and ends. When it did get busy, it would happen unexpectedly, often at 6PM while on the way out the door, suddenly something comes up and voila, we stay till midnight. I had an opportunity to work on a pitch once, which I gladly worked late many nights, hoping to finally make a difference. In this whole time, 70% of my time was filled working on annotation boxes (literally making and revising red boxes with annotations for weeks), or revising existing copy on brochures, 10% actually designing stuff, and 10% arguing with an abusive/bully coworker who gave me nightmares and luckily was later fired for not getting along with manager. The last 10% I felt like I am perhaps making a difference. And where am I now? 100% kind of screwed over (I really don't like the blame game, but this is one place that I genuinely regret ever accepting) as for this position I have absolutely no work that would be even fit to show to anyone, and nothing to speak of whatsoever. My only hope is that the name FCB means something and that unsuspecting employers will not figure out this is that NJ FCBCURE agency that most clients left.