Vantaggi
Pleasure to work with talented and driven team. Everyone was excited about the brand and communicated well, especially when clients' pivoted directions and wanted deadlines to be met. Teammates were able to assist and provide guidance if there was something complicated or had trouble understanding. Many team bonding events after work and during work hours. Free breakfast and on-site barista every workday. Teams from other departments would showcase their work. The company offered many online classes to gain skills especially in Excel. There are lots of opportunities for upward mobility within the company. You just need to take the time to network with others, especially if there are different departments that you're interested in. It was nice to have scheduled one-on-one meetings with my manager when starting out as a new hire. This helped to ensure you're acclimated to the work and with the team.
Svantaggi
Working in the advertising industry for a large brand is extremely fast-paced as the team expects new hires to hit the ground running within the first several weeks (if this is what you're looking for, go for it). I remember feeling overly stressed as the team would hardly take breaks, except for lunch. Also, we would have to be on top of emails. If there was an email that appeared during lunch time, one of us would have to take a short lunch and immediately return to work. There were days where we'd have to work overtime and over the weekends as this is salary-based with a starting amount of $40k/ year. This was non-negotiable at the time. From my experience with the team culture, working overtime was praised. It was a hybrid work schedule, however, upper management eventually wanted to permanently move back to an in-person 5-day work week. Unfortunately, I had a negative experience with a newly-appointed supervisor that expected perfection within several weeks of starting the job, and would throw condescending comments to new hires in front of the whole team. Upper management and other established team members would witness it first-hand, and not confront our supervisor. This continued on until I moved on to a different career opportunity.