Pros
- Individual teams/departments genuinely care about and support one another. - Interesting industries or projects. - Experience/exposure - you have to figure things out, train yourself up, and learn from doing. - A few in-house resources (i.e. full-fledged graphic design department that all AMs and other creative departments benefit from). - The CEO does have good intentions.
Cons
What do you get when you see the creative director leave, associate director leave, a department manager leave, their replacement leave, and THEIR replacement leave? Exactly what Loudr is: an environment unfit for talented, determined people with decent hearts. Loudr “lore” has proven time and time again that an employee’s care, perseverance, and delivery does not matter and ultimately will not be appreciated. Coming even from agency experience, expect to be broken down from workload, ops issues, high turnover, poor morale, zero manager support, and a selfish/disorganized C-suite. After settling in elsewhere, you come to realize that Loudr is not actually a professional, healthy, or growing organization - by most standards. Sure, it’s made major strides since its founding, and looks different today, but operations are not suited for the longterm. Focus on ops and team training, and you’ll fix many systemic issues. So much time wasted attempting to adopt the EOS system, having lengthy L10 meetings where everyone talks in circles and gets nothing done (these meetings just became a vacuum for issues that were added to a laundry list and would see no resolution). The team also began working with some strange life coaches. Odd partnerships or unsuccessful client relationships often came from being “a friend of a friend” of C-suite’s. Please prioritize sales - not favors. Updated the remote policy from a select number of days to fully remote, if desired, and then acted flabbergasted and passive aggressive when people actually used it. Do not provide the option if you can’t handle people taking their benefits seriously. “HR” based in Denver lacked tact, and was clearly there solely for accounting purposes and to protect the company from any legal issues. Gossip and silos that will leave you feeling icky. The nepotism, especially in West Palm, is palpable.