Leadership has become a joke. The guys in charge (and they are all guys) have no clear role or greater vision--they are a bunch of "yes" men with ADD who drop unfeasible ideas on the "no" women beneath them, who are then expected to tackle and execute problems based on reality. There is no autonomy or direction when it comes to one's career; to get ahead as a woman, you have to do whatever is asked of you regardless of your skills or areas of expertise. Instead of matching work to the person, the only criteria used is capacity and dependability, so as usual, the high performers suffer while the people who've proven useless coast along. Office politics are also insufferable--there is a galling amount of gossip and backstabbing among middle and upper management.
As for junior staff, i think it's probably a decent place to be--as with most agencies, you'll end up doing the bulk of the labor while your billing rates are cheap, shoot up the ladder if you do a great job, then land in the pile of dung that is a management role. The real killer is seeing how the sausage is made. And all of this is to say nothing of some of the lunatics we work for.
