Pros
Urban Ignite provided all the things you want to hear; no grind culture, flexible work week, PTO, and working with interesting clients. For the most part, that was all true.
Cons
Management kept stringing people on about providing health insurance, eventually not moving forward with it due to it being too difficult to figure out. There seemed to be a focus on being a cool, hip, millennial led company instead of wanting to double down on what was needed to promote the company, considering the loss of several major revenue generating clients. Pay is not competitive in the industry. The company works on a 30/hour work week, generally 4 days a week, but holds business hours that make it impossible to meet that time unless you work on the day "off" or longer during other days. Working over the 25 hours as a regular employee or over 30 hours as a director was frowned upon, even if work was there. There was questionable use of money coming into the company, including alternative forms of payment the company received. I do not trust that the founder, Jordan, was appropriately using funds (whether it was actually revenue or gift cards received as payment for work). Transparency does not exist. You will not know something is wrong until too late. For being a small team (two people are related, too), it was really discouraging to see repeated failings at adequately updating employees on what was going on. I never trusted where the company was at financially, and I felt strung on through my time there, being promised growth and expansion, but the company never replaced Director level positions, or other positions, when they were vacated. In a year, the company went from 9 employees to 4 who work in the city, losing 3 directors. Overall, I loved my time there, but there were endless red flags and what I felt were bad dealings that generally harmed the growth of the company. I don't recommend UI as an employee.