Great values that aren’t put into practice. Toxic work environment.
Pros
- Flexibility around work hours and life - Permanently remote - Decent benefits - A lot of opportunity to take on responsibility - Competitive salary - Aspiring B-Corp - Some great members of management who support and back up their team when possible. - Great coworkers/people at the bottom.
Cons
- Lots of context switching for project resources with competing priorities and sometimes ridiculous deadlines - Regular overallocation of staff resulting in little to no time for professional development. This also leads to burnout very quickly. - Not a great space for junior employees as nobody has the time to teach/grow. - Leadership making process decisions is out of touch with the day to day of those doing the work. Resulting in major pains when trying to implement a process. - Project Managers face the brunt of all churn relating to process which is always changing. - True small agency that doesn’t have the bandwidth to break up with or have difficult conversations with troublesome clients. - Does not live their values, overall treats strong employees poorly. While they are aspiring to be a B-Corp it’s hard not to view this as simply a marketing move to attract the NFP clientele - Cultural challenges with leadership being primarily American. Very hierarchical and passive aggressive. They do not like direct feedback. - Overall a pretty toxic work environment that promotes burnout in its strongest employees. Putting onus on the individual to fix the problem rather than taking preventative steps. - If you’re over allocated and burning out, taking a day off doesn’t help you recharge because you’re too stressed about how much further behind you were because of that day off.
