Not worth it if you have the experience to go somewhere better - Digital Strategist Break Something Employee Review

Let me preface this by explaining that I mostly enjoyed working at Break Something while I was there, and enjoyed a much better relationship with the partners than the average employee. I've since realized a lot of things that I just attributed to the Democratic digital space being kind of tough were not normal. The partners have good intentions but enforce ridiculous, arbitrary rules to micromanage you as much as possible (no private Slack channels, saying that the company wasn't 'ready' to allow employees to WFH before COVID.... look how that turned out) You will constantly be forced to answer for even the smallest mistake you make because the partners insist on knowing every single detail of what you do. They don't trust you to manage clients on your own, but they still allow employees with almost no experience to do day to day client management The partners will side with clients over you. They will not help you to set boundaries when clients' expectations veer outside the limits of what you should be expected to do Employees are almost all miserable, and they carry a pretty deep sense of victimization. While I was there, I would try to set boundaries for myself by leaving the office at a reasonable time and choosing to leave work for the next day when I felt myself burning out a bit. I was treated like someone who was unwilling to carry my weight by the other employees, even though I was genuinely on top of my work Managers never have any managerial experience and are hired to senior roles after an average of 6 months of work in the Dem digital space. I was only ever managed by people whom I thought were doing as best as they could, but there were (a small number of) other employees who were there who genuinely were bad at their jobs and should absolutely have never been hired. These people made mistakes which lost the firm important clients Too many meetings, most of which are unnecessary and exist for the purpose of micromanaging This didn't happen to me, but other employees reported that after they had put in notice they were essentially frozen out by the partners, who treated their choice to move on as a kind of personal betrayal Even if you're enjoying what you're doing, it's really hard to not feel discouraged when several of your coworkers quit within the frame of a single month