Vantaggi
- 5k sign on bonus which they have gotten rid of now - You can secure solid career prospects if you’re willing to become another body in the rat race, but only a privileged handful ever get access. - Nothing else they squeeze out as much work as they can and make requesting off a hostile process.
Svantaggi
• You are expected to work until you burn out. Staying until 10 p.m. multiple nights a week is treated as normal. The higher-ups have no life outside of work, so they expect you not to have one either. It feels like working for Goldman (whose current CEO helped found Penta, which definitely plays a role in the culture) but the pay (60k, maybe even less now) is what you’d get in a regular junior ad-agency role. • People in leadership positions are mostly there because they have been there long enough. No one is evaluated for actual leadership qualities. Titles are used as bait to keep people running on the hamster wheel of death. • Associates crave validation from higher ups in a way that is embarrassing to witness. If you have even a crumb of self esteem, the constant approval chasing will make the culture unbearable.