Pros
Great colleagues who want do great work together even if there are sometimes disagreements. The creatives also look out for each other and offer help when they can. The agency has a few great accounts that would look good in your book and most are given the chance to work on the campaigns and pitches. Senior team members also do their best to help juniors and improve their skills. Working together is generally fun until the MD forces his ideas on people.
Cons
The MD always claims that the agency is about its people but the people are the last thing he invest in. Paying their salaries is not an investment ok? Almost everyone is spoken to like they are dumb or that their opinions do not matter. The environment is generally not a safe or nurturing one because you never know when you would be thrown under the bus by the account servicing team. And we're not even talking about how you're just supposed to know how to do the work even without a proper brief or having the right experience for it. The account servicing team is another problem. They don't give you the right information, create gossip and add to the toxic culture. The agency is led by one voice, one that only listens to itself and refuses to move with the times. This is something that the account servicing team seems to be happy working with as it works very well for them even as the good creatives seem to be continuously leaving.