Pros
- snacks, soft drinks, and a good coffee machine. - convenient, public-transit accessible location. - professional development fund is a nice perk. - PTO policy should, in theory, benefit everyone equally. What ends up happening is the same people consistently take a lot of time off, and the lower-level employees have to cover for them more frequently. Bigger teams have more coverage options, so they're able to take more time off. Employees of smaller teams take less time off because of fewer coverage options.
Cons
- They preach a company culture of inclusion, community, friendliness, and acceptance. This is a lie they've sold themselves on. Teams and individuals are extremely cliquey. - There's the notion that team members 'wear many different hats,' and what that really implies is team members without sufficient experience in a given area are given tasks with little direction and end up doing a poor job. There's a lot of "they need to do their job" and "that's not my job" whispered after meetings. - Mid-level managers tend to be younger with little management experience or training in managing a team. It's not uncommon to have a supervisor micromanage and pick apart your work with little positive feedback and a lot of criticism. When something goes wrong or a client is dissatisfied, the associate employees take the brunt of the blame. This was evident across teams. - Health insurance options are infamously terrible. - They claim to encourage employees to explore outside of their direct area of work. This is only allowable once you reach director or deputy director level. - First and foremost, this agency is an email agency. Anyone not on the content and campaigns team is a 2nd class employee. - Most importantly, this agency falsely claims to do work in the political space. This isn't true. They've been resting on this laurel since Obama's '08 and '12 campaigns. Their work is pretty strictly non-profit work with a little corporate work mixed in. Stop lying to applicants.