Pros
The startup experience!! The company has a snowballing startup spirit. It's not for everyone. Definately not for those who want to clock in and clock out without purpose. There is purpose, strong purpose. To take full advantage of this very unique and challenging startup platform, you have to be a hustler within looking to help bring impact and innovate the next biggest thing.
Ever-changing work loads and challenges, I had to diversify my skills - different types of writing, editing, client management and planing. I remember writing with a professional tone for product descriptions and then with humour and the right hipster tone for other articles.
Whenever I believed I couldn't do something, I would learn a whole new skill. The CEO Neil used to say that he likes to keep his employees ready for anything that comes their way. The key is to keep learning, never get stagnant. He saw the wordplay as one, all together we were one - if any task needed more hands on deck, we'd be right there getting it done. That "nothing can stop us!!" Feeling.
To be honest I loved my time there, I learnt alot from wordplay, and especially from Neil's mentorship.
Neil is a very inspirational and a passionate mentor. His style is very free-flowing and lucid, dynamic, he comes in and changes up the game and pushes the whole team forward. He knows things that others don't - a great leader to be recognized. And for any future employee I will tell you this - give him his space - he is spectacular, but you have to give him his room to not worry about what he says and how he comes off. A Steve Jobs type, ruthless entrepreneur. You gotta be a team player, and realize Wordplay needs it's captian at the helm of it's ship.
I knew the talented crew that left him late 2015, mentioned in other reviews. Neil's the senior editor, Ganesh, was a very respectful and thoughful person and was in charge of allocation and execution of projections. Neil is very big on Task-ownership.
Neil would say things like, if the project fails to meet its deadline, is it me or is it you?? Whose to fail? He would bestow real responsibility upon his managers. I liked his style, made us feel important, that we made the difference and we cannot fail!! We shall beat any obstacle!. Neil along with the crew that was working with him, amazing time and place to be apart off.
Wordplay is still Wordplay because it's soul is it's CEO Neil, my mentor in life, the person who inspired me to do business in my life and brought out the best in me.
I had to leave to the America because of my family moving and needed my support, otherwise I would still be at wordplay, growing managing and bringing the company's vision to life!
Cons
Read the pros section, I wrote some downsides in there too.