If you're not a friend of senior management, forget progression
Pros
- Great working environment with an excellent location, lovely offices and fantastic facilities - Lots of friendly, interesting people with real skills and talent - Good for CV due to scale/network/client list - Standard but welcomed benefits package - You'll learn a lot - not necessarily about your field of expertise, but about personalities, nepotism and office politics!
Cons
- Rigid business model that doesn't support the changing nature of digital, still relies on monolithic design and build projects - Creative output isn't very creative, nor is it underpinned by any strong strategy - Catchcry is on quality but we build and launch the exact opposite. Some of the stuff that gets delivered here is absolutely awful - Focus is on technical build, so if you're a developer or techie, you'll be happy. Also UX are the rockstars - copy, strategy and planning less so, despite their importance - Nepotism reigns supreme. Senior management hire friends, show favour to staff going out/married to executives (despite their lack of skill/intelligence). Everyone scrambles for projects by sucking up to bosses, instead of being cast due to expertise or experience - PM's and client services generally useless - have no idea about actual work, instead always looking to pitch our latest service, rather than finding a solution that works for the client. - Exec management not equipped to run a business of this size. Needs an agency wide methodology - Huge amounts of churn - people leave every day here - Poor pay compared to competitor agencies
