Mad Reviews

This company suffers from trying to apply a scrappy start-up attitude that it should have outgrown a long time ago. It has a "can do" attitude in that it tries to do everything, often with some success, but what you'll discover, even if you're a tough-as-nails creative powerhouse, is that you will simply never have enough time to do a truly great job. Never mind how stress-proof you are: you simply will not have the direction or resources to do work you're really proud of. By the time you get started on something, you've already been volunteered to deliver "kick-ass" work in 3 days for five other clients. What's worse about this is that the tight timelines are often created by management, not by clients. I have literally watched certain leaders wait until the last possible moment to "issue" a project to the creative team, when they had known about the project, and its potential deadlines, for almost an entire month. The only time projects ever come out decent is when the designers stay after hours (a common occurrence in a place that is already 9 to 6.) The culture basically consists of worshiping work, encouraging hyper-long hours, feeding everyone sweets to make the morale better, then wondering why everyone seem so miserable. There are signs that the company is on its way to improving in some of these fields, but a lot of that rides on the will of the company's CEO and whether or not he can get back in touch with his company or hire people who can. I will say that for all of the negative aspects of the company's current situation, I think that the leadership would *like* things to change, they just don't know how yet.

There is this whole 'micro-managed, constantly watching, waiting for people to mess up' feeling to the place, like you're set up for failure. There is rarely any positive reinforcement, or "good job", but if someone makes a mistake, they'll definitely hear about it or they'll be yelled at by the owner. The managers are inept. They are not bad people, they just don't know how to manage and supervise usually due to the fact that they are friends or family to the owner. Which leads to micromanagement to where they expect you to work over 40 hours each week, and if you dont youre already on deathrow to the hot head boss just waiting for any mistake you can possibly make now. At this point you will get yelled at and belittled by the owner. Most are pushed to their brink and others are favored. If youre looking to work for a company with room for advancement look elsewhere as even reviews and raises are hard to come by. The company is worth more or less 20 million so the work and productions is there however all projects are taken in with no regards to deadlines. Were always late and most time mistakes happen most our clients are always upset with us rightfully so, so you will also hear it on the end as well.