Pros
Pyxl was a great company for many years. The talent, capabilities and culture were top-notch for so long. I was able to personally learn so much from other disciplines in addition to my own. I was able to work on incredibly large projects across multiple industries, soak it all in and have used that knowledge to pour into numerous opportunities.
Cons
While the pros were good for many years, the last 2-3 years of Pyxl have represented the fall of a great empire. Drama and layoffs came in via the Trojan Horse of an interoffice relationship made permissible by unannounced handbook policy changes. This is just one example from the steady stream of lies fed directly to us from the top. What once was a strong organization with over 60 employees across 4 offices is now in ruins and barely an organization at all. Operations have now consolidated down into one final office with around 10 employees (don't believe what you see on the website, half of those people are either part time or have left and never removed). You don't have to read very far into previous reviews to understand which of them are real, and which are the remaining management members desperately trying to salvage the pitiful remains of “culture” with their pressured (or fake) reviews. With the crumbling of an empire, comes the downfall of its ruler. While Pyxl stood many years on solid management pillars, this ruler brought a hurricane of destruction with him on the guise of "shaking things up.” He repeatedly came back to "run Pyxl because nobody can run it as good as the owner" but in reality was due to his serial quitting of many failed outside business ventures (which was also a really good way of milking his friends for marketing work and funneling that money from their pocket right into his). While "getting rid of time tracking", "getting one of those cool Starbucks machines" or "pushing an employee out of the boat" made him feel like he was the emperor, in reality it only made him appealing to those too inexperienced to see through the bull. At that point, Pyxl could only survive with high churn and endlessly bringing fresh new talent (still in school), putting them on "Intern Island" and letting them do client work. To give some actual data, in the past 2 years, they've lost 1 CEO, 1 COO, 1 President, 2 VPs, 5 managing directors, 4 functional directors, 2 offices and every bit of credibility it had left. If that doesn't tell you all you need to know about Pyxl, nothing will. In the end, was it ever really an empire at all, or just a fantasy one written on fake Ritz Carlton stationary with a pen still wet from signing the last “deal” filled with fake promises?
