Great company - New Business Director Seiden Advertising Employee Review

Great team with opportunity to wear many hats

No cons to mention here

- Very friendly environment. - Supportive colleagues and superiors. - CEO is visibly present and supportive of the better work to come out of the agency. - Recent ECD hire is trying to turn the agency around to focus more on good work and awards, great boss to work under. - For advertising, especially as a creative, excellent work life balance. - They pay well and most people here have stayed for many years, also uncommon in advertising. - Not too much micromanagement. - Some really excellent account execs, there's good camaraderie between accounts and creative. - Good sick day policy (unlimited). - Summer Fridays! - Some very talented creatives and account execs (good with ideas, craft, experience, communication skills)

- Work is not too creative - Small and cramped work environment - There is no strategy department. As a result, creative briefs are terribly written and uninspiring. The agency finds strategy oddly unnecessary... Marks the difference between amazing agencies that focus hard on strategy and come out with consistently excellent creative work and Seiden which tries sometimes but fails mostly. - CCO not very creatively encouraging - overly critical. - Work is not interesting. - Completely out of touch with digital side of things (though they are trying.. it's cute but sad). - World's tiniest refrigerator for 50 people. Mini fridge in mini kitchen, eat-at-desk-while-working culture. - You get tired of making 200 of the same print ad for the same client with the same content and marginally variable creative. Not the place to flex your creative muscles. - Very small roster of clients, so as a creative you don't get much experience working on different brands. All healthcare so that gets monotonous. Clients can be unbelievably close minded (though the agency DOES try to convince them sometimes). - Hardly submit work to awards and press, the agency barely exists in the minds of industry stalwarts. ("Seiden who? Where? Never heard of it.") - Seems like they were started in 95 and stayed in 95.