Pros
Employees, overall, are welcoming and there to help adapt to the culture. Always some type of team activity to stimulate employee engagement. There’s camaraderie—it’s a small beating heart, but it exists. Decent salary with perks. Potential to grow if you have a clear career path. The agency is involved in enough associations to build sustainable network.
Cons
While there are a few good folks, leadership as a whole is more concerned with titles and maintaining authority than actual change and company growth. Horrible use of talent—the favorites are overused and the specialists are underutilized, hidden in the shadows of the “superstars.” A very top heavy org with not enough junior associates to balance out workloads. Speak up about any inconsistencies and experience retaliation so subtle you’d think it was a figment of your imagination. While smaller agencies have their benefits, it does create a vacuum where everyone is cycling redundant ideas and thoughts cosplaying as innovation and progress. A lot of groupthink exists with very limited variety of perspectives. Gotta know how to play the game, because the fall from grace is brutal.