Pros
• Opportunity to work with high profile clients and brands • Unique experience in an industry that most don't know about • Flex your design muscles trying to break out of templates/limitations of the products • Ability to make a quick impact being part of a small company (more so if the right people like you) • Most importantly, work with a lot of talented, fun people (before they left or were let go)
Cons
Where do I begin... • In just 8 months, the company axed almost half of its staff - everyone from designers to sales in extremely disrespectful ways. Absolutely no sense of responsibility or remorse for people who had dedicated many years and long, thankless hours doing their best to keep the company going • Extremely low pay compared to your AVERAGE market value (but they will insist they are paying you market value, they are either lying or so delusional they believe their own lies) • Little to no perks, laughable benefits package • There is NO HR, only an office assistant who attempts to act as HR but knows nothing about how benefits work so you're on your own • Seasoned employees are expected to answer phones and clean dishes - they are CHEAP • Gossiping and backstabbing environment due to the random waves of layoffs • Laziness is rewarded often by a select few • Executive team and senior management - most have little to no experience in media or advertising but that won't stop them acting like they know everything. At such a small company they've been able to manipulate and extremely inflate their titles where the kind of career trajectory would never exist at a normal functioning company, and the egos are out of control. Exec team especially have squandered a great opportunity with a niche market with out of control spending on frivolous business "needs" (a fledgling company needs TWO floors of premium office space on 5th avenue that they now can't even afford) and banking on a deal with one holding company to bring in continued business. Well, let's just say it didn't work out.