Overall positive outlook despite of growing pain
Pros
* Very stable & large clients & projects. *Depends on the teams and your direct report, but my former manager has been very supportive, informative and transparent since the beginning – we've kept a great relationship, and she became my mentor. *Great people within the project levels & across teams – genuinely helpful and friendly co-workers for the majority. *Steller health benefits + HSA, 4-5 weeks vacation to start, generous educational grant comparing – in comparison to mid-sized agencies across Canada/US. To sum up my pros and cons – for anybody to be successful working at Media Monks, it requires a certain type of entrepreneurial spirit. Just like all the big corps, things are divided into their own client teams, departments etc. – There's not currently a way to consolidate information globally across different things like – performance review, client account structure, project structure, processes etc. Different client accounts/projects have their own way of doing things. But for you to get a promotional opportunity, understand the MM way, or how to fix a problem, find the right resource etc. – it depends on your Media Monks network – how much time you spend connecting with the right people to get the right information, and how are you presenting yourself to the others to sell them on giving you the right opportunity. It's a lot of self-initiation and planning and road mapping on many things for your accounts and yourself – and you'd need to advocate your strength to the right person to get the opportunity you want internally.
Cons
*Growing pain for an agency looking to consolidate processes, systems etc., from all the mergers – no global direction on where to find resources across different regions. *Depending on the client accounts/projects you're working on, it can be very chaotic from a work/deadline perspective during active campaign seasons (i.e. I've worked 16hrs for 3 days straight to cope with incoming campaigns). *The real issue also comes when you have too many cooks in the kitchen, and you can't quite figure out the relationship/power dynamics between clients vs. vendors vs. internal company teams and identify a key decision maker that makes decisions – But that is a unique problem depending on which account you work at.
