Vantaggi
Everything you've read in these negative reviews is true and I'm sure you are seeing a pattern. I honestly have never seen such great salesmen on a senior level - it's how they duped so many smart people into working here, but then quickly realized they've made a huge mistake. The only pros I could see were that you had company in your misery and that they do pay well for an agency - another tactic to lure talent in to hopefully blind them from the bad. And there's so much bad.
Svantaggi
Going back to the great salesmen part, we constantly pulled in new, large, sexy clients because leadership would promise them anything and everything. Then the project would begin and it wouldn't take long for the client to figure out that we couldn't deliver on those promises. This would put staff under tremendous pressure over something they didn't have any say in or control over. If you're not in the club and "one of the good ol' boys," then watch out. It was like the kids who got picked on in grade school were finally getting their revenge. Bullies. The things that I witnessed first-hand to pressure jr. staff into staying was appalling and wouldn't be tolerated anywhere else. I also witnessed first hand the lack of a moral compass among leadership, instructing staff to perform tactics that were dishonest and underhanded - anything to make sure they weren't revealed for the frauds they are. The egos on most of the leadership staff are astronomically large. It starts at the top and I don't know if they are so delusional that they actually believe their own hype, but it seems that way. And don't think that we all don't notice how the only awards and coverage they receive are from the Holmes Report.