Pros
Range of interesting, sometimes challenging clients. Compensation has historically been competitive. Schedule flexibility. There are still some genuinely good people left there (but their numbers are steadily dwindling).
Cons
These recent shining, fawning positive reviews? One after the next? All in just the last few days? Don't fall for them. The negatives are far too numerous to mention. Start with — daily, absolute chaos. No discernible corporate strategy. No differentiation. No effort to define culture, never mind grow and then attempt to maintain internal culture. No corporate officer core to advocate for employees. In short — there is not a lot of hope for the future. The leadership structure changes on a dime, every 18 months, with the same disastrous results. Operational efficiencies are stripped away, and the officers and practitioners flood the exits. Working at Levick is a constant study in a few steps forward, followed by multiple steps backwards — all inflicted from the very top. Slogging through as a practitioner at Levick isn’t at all unlike trying to survive on the coaching staff of Washington’s National Football League team. The owner is rash, impulsive, distractible, indecisive, and quick to turn on even his most productive and dedicated senior staff. He is deeply absorbed in his own ceaseless self-promotion, and can be a vexing challenge to work with on client accounts. He promises clients the moon and stars for impossibly small budgets, then leaves it to the practitioners to figure out how to deliver routine miracles. Every problem or change at the executive level is blamed on others. Excuses abound. There is no sense of responsibility for the turmoil many loyal employees have dealt with for years. But don’t take my word for any of this. Deconstruct the recent rush of positive reviews, all posted in the last few days, and all filed after 80 percent of the senior, mid-level and junior practitioners flew the coop in the wake yet another spectacular C-level tire fire. Every positive element described in these reviews is actually a verifiable negative. They recognize the symptomatic daily misery of working for this firm’s leadership, and yet they triple down on their entrenchment, caramel coating a series of a select dysfunctions with syrupy Stockholmisms. Read critically, and you’ll see all of it with ease.