Vantaggi
This place does have great flexibility. Not that you may be there long, but the CEO does start out very pleasant with you. She doesn't heavily favor staff but she always falls in love with the latest employee. (If you get on her bad side start counting down your days). They have summer Fridays. They close the office at noon during the summers, however you'll have to work the 9 hours M-Thr. She does allow for you to work from home. I will say this, she is very work/life balanced. She is very accommodating. Benefits aren’t great though. You really couldn’t afford benefits here with a family. But when you’re working in an agency you can’t expect too much especially a small one.
Svantaggi
This is not an intent to put out a negative review, but to be truthful in what you're getting yourself into if you are considering this place. Almost everywhere you go, you will always have disgruntled workers. However, the difference is that OCG is a small place and you'll definitely feel the effects of what’s wrong with this place. Everyone does. The CEO is a mover and shaker in Fort Worth. She's definitely good at that! However, she moves and shakes her staff as well. People get let go of or laid off –left and right! Sometimes it's the staff's fault, but most were management's fault. It's understandable that you are at an agency and there will be times you lose client business. But laying someone off after a month of hiring them because you don't have a budget to cover their salary? Really? You didn't know that a month before you hired them? (Yes, that happened at least twice while I was there.) The one thing the CEO doesn't get or doesn't care is that good people have left great tenured jobs to go to work at OCG thinking it's a grand ole agency. But for what? Just to be laid off a few months later? I LITERALLY felt bad for people who would come to interview. Because trust me, they were always hiring someone. How was a hurting agency always hiring? It didn't matter that someone had just been let go, the CEO always had a brilliant idea to hire a fresh face. More like always trying to hire a new savior. (Actually she hired a new savior, Chief Strategy Officer, but she was too corporate. I didn’t have a problem with her but I heard many left because of that). This is the kind of stuff that I saw month in and month out, year after year, and it was getting to be too much. My morale couldn't handle it anymore. Another huge issue here is that OCG doesn't have its act together. Every time we hired a new staff member to join the team, they would come to OCG with their own style and wanted to bring in their own processes, procedures, and reports that at times was great, however, when you're changing procedures every other week, it bogs current staff down. It is so disruptive to your daily work place. (Oh, and when someone was laid off, you go their workload. It’s part of your job. Hey, I don’t mind extra work. I love staying busy, but don’t bog me down for months on end!) Not to mention the different tactics the CEO tried to implement because she would get so desperate at times. Just leave it alone! Implement good ones -yes, but it's a complete joke to start a new process every single month because you read something in a book or hear something from a 'friend'. How desperate does she get? She “asked” a few staff and (probably partners) to fill out Glass Door reviews just so that potential new hires wouldn’t be scared away. (Don't believe me? Check out the 05/2017 date that she responded to almost all these reviews, it's the same date she herself did a fake review. Come on. It's not hard to miss with that long title she used.) Yes, there will always be whiners, but this place was so toxic that I couldn't handle it, and for my kind of character that is saying a whole lot. You think clients don’t start noticing that you’ve got a huge turn around. More than the average? More than the norm? Oh while I was there, they noticed.
