Pros
Strong female leadership in all levels of management. Health benefits are pretty good. A fair number of company holidays (but this may change with continued integration of policies). Shared solutions people may get to work on a few bigger name clients from across the different integrated agencies.
Cons
I used to love working here. We had a fun, team work environment. We felt passionate about the work (helping people with rare disease and cancer + philanthropic endeavors) and working hard paid off. We typically got to go home on time. We were usually granted the flexibility to come in a little late or leave a little early for important life things, like a doctor's appointment or a kid's concert. We celebrated each other's career or life milestones by going for lunch together (often generously granted by the agency credit card). It was a good place full of good people. Now, Fishawack has gutted everything good about this agency. Their choice of rebrand is fitting: they came like a wolf in sheep's clothing with their fancy accents and big promises, but have quite literally been scattering the sheep. The turnover rate is so bad that 1-3 people leave every month (and 5 people left just this past month). All they're concerned about is buying more agencies and getting bigger. Fishawack is too cheap to staff properly, so 10-12 hour days or weekends are pretty common. They never have enough money to invest back into their employees or hire properly, but they've always got money to buy yet another agency. They claim the departments are fully staffed while current employees are getting crushed under the workload. The pay is also insultingly low, and most people leaving have gotten huge increases. There's so much red tape and inefficient levels of management that it's impossible to be heard. People in upper level management got big promotions and face time with the global level, c-suite management so they're quite comfy. Meanwhile, everyone below them is suffering. It's clear that the only way to improve the situation is to leave. Promotions have always been confusing here, but you can forget about it in the chaos of integration. All your managers will be too busy (overworked) and probably don't have the managerial/political power to promote you anyway. Underpaying your well trained employees is much more expensive than you think. They know how to anticipate problems from the very beginning and move things along efficiently because they've done it for so long. I've seen entire projects get derailed, go over projected time and budget due to 1-2 inexperienced new hires. Stop wasting time treating your workers like machinery. Seriously, don't work here if you value your career or mental health.