Pros
- Healthy-life hours are great if you're allowed to use them (often guilt-tripped if you did.) - PTO is great if you're allowed to use it. - Office space is nice if you get to go back. - Work/Life balance can be achieved with the right manager. - Pre-pandemic we were able to work from home on our terms which was nice. - Other departments have a decent reputation.
Cons
- Pay is dismal. A solid 25% lower than market value for same position in area. Review salary in Glassdoor to get an idea. - There is no real method to their promotions. People were promoted multiple times in a year/two year period when others weren't given the chance or were told BS reasons why they weren't. - If you are friends with leadership, you'll get promoted with no reason other than you are friends. - Creatives are treated like bottom of the barrel employees. They are told they are experts...and then dismissed for voicing opinions. They are there to do what the strategic leader or account executive says because no one wants to push back on the client. - Upper management is clueless and has NO idea how much work creatives actually have. They constantly sign up new clients, demand unrealistic deadlines and then when the creatives produce, they hate everything they see. Then the account executives get the heat, which they blame on creatives. - Clients are unhappy with work because creatives have to work so fast so quality of work suffers. - Creatives are burnt out and leadership acts like they listen, but nothing changes. - Toxic environment with lots of gossip, throwing under the bus and back stabbing. - Extremely HIGH turn over and attrition. - Little to NO diversity. Especially with client facing positions.