Vantaggi
A few team members were very nice and professional
Decent location downtown
Svantaggi
I took a contract with these guys hesitantly. I read some of the reviews before taking the contract, but decided to overlook them because maybe that person (plural) just had a bad experience. Boy was I wrong.
I have never worked with such an incompetent, negative, and chaotic organization. There is no HR. There is no real creative team or development team. They outsource everything. They outsourced me as the dedicated PM/AM for an account and didn't even tell the client.
They don't have a real creative team. They outsource everything. Account Directors and "Director" of PM try to instill fear and micromanage everything to their liking. If you don't do it "their way" they will become passive-aggressive and try to expose you publicly, as if "their way" was better.
They call themselves agile but use ClickUp as their PM software - they don't perform any agile ceremonies. I was only contracted for 20 hours, but they expected me to work more. And when I confronted them about it, they questioned what I was doing and became even more passive-aggressive because they knew they didn't "have me".
All you have to do is read the other reviews of this place, and that should be enough insight for you to draw a conclusion. I wasn't there long enough because I left as soon as I could to speak on behalf of some others folks, I am only talking on behalf of interactive, account, & project teams.
This agency is about 10 years behind the current landscape of advertising & marketing. Team members are stressed out, account managers are "Yes men", internal teams have exhausting workloads, and the general vibe is very terse & negative. It's felt almost immediately as you walk into the place.
If I were a brand looking for an agency, these are the LAST people I would ever hire to build a website or run ads for me. After seeing how they operate internally, I plead you to look elsewhere. There are way better agencies than this makeshift group of "marketers."
Putting in my notice gave me immense joy. Do yourself a favor and don't even interview with these guys.