Outdated strategies & processes, assimilate to strong white culture encouraged by basically all white Exec leadership
Pros
- Competitive salary to industry - Volunteer time off - Decent diversify amongst junior and mid-senior levels
Cons
Lasted less than a month on Publix account and this is my observation: - All white leadership fosters community that requires white culture knowledge, conformity and past experiences to relate to leadership and even junior/mid senior levels. For example, in team meetings, questions like “what is your best prom story?” And answers like “Shopping sprees at Saks and out riding my boat” to “what do you do on your day off?” Isn’t very relatable - If you’re introverted and not extroverted/social or have a different personality THAN THE ALL CAPS AND EXCLAMATION POINT !!!! types of colleagues, then you’re out of luck...they’ll misunderstand and misconstrue your every move and bring up your past mistakes over and over if you don’t change over night. Mind you, all this psychological torture happened in less than three weeks. Minority men and women often silent in team meetings and only those able to participate in the white culture questions and topics bond with each other - Don’t speak up or try to fix their slow and outdated manual processes. If you come from a background of automation, formulas and macros, you’re gonna struggle. When suggested there’s better ways than copying and pasting, you’re not being a team player and obeying orders basically. It’s like going back to 101 and any process updates challenged or pushed your first couple weeks of employment will be met with consequences - Leaders make you feel guilty and bad when you start pushing back and voicing concerns on work load, especially as a new hire. Basically told to suck it up and work 50+ hours, even in your first week. What a way to learn about an agency’s culture - Bottom —> top management style makes sense in some ways to empower junior team members but it becomes a power struggle with process or strategy changes for mid senior management. No desire to keep it more balanced and when concerns are raised, leaders side with junior members or those they favorite - These teams will deny it but I’m sure there’s a lot of gossiping. They all have inside jokes with each other and giggle on the side during meetings. They’ll tell you to your face how well you’re doing then turn to your manager and say 50 bad things that you weren’t aware of. If they’re your managers or director/VPs favorite, you’ll always be in the wrong and it’ll always be what you did rather than objectively looking at their teams behavior. They also expect you to change over night or over the course of a week. - SVP likes to call you out of the blue on your personal cell or your calendar and put you on the spot to answering personal or sensitive questions. Gives you very little time to prepare and pushes for answers when you’re clearly uncomfortable. Needs things to happen ASAP which to her detriment, is why this whole experience was a huge failure and mess - I guess there’s one specific way to becoming a successful leader on this account which involves a lot of obeying and conforming rather than successful leadership. Team members can be overbearing and micro managers while others talk way too much to their own detriment