Pros
If you like sports, you’ll go far. Staff itself are generally warm & friendly, Chicago location caters food a decent amount, & benefits are solid. People are willing to grab a drink at the office bar and work on a project. Work was challenging at very busy times of the year, but predictable because of sports season pre-planning. It’s marketing agency, so if you’re account-facing be prepared for unreasonable requests, but when I left they were developing a more robust system to document changes /revisions. Good exposure to a wide variety of clients & fun offsite opportunities if you get the chance.
Cons
Gender-balanced but NOT diverse at all, BIPOC/LGBTQ+ folks are only allowed to move so far up the corporate ladder so long as the executive team is all white. There are weekly all-hands & quarterly State of the Unions that are meant to provide transparency for employees, but it’s really just a bunch of corporate buzzwords, humble-bragging, and playful jabs at other execs, the rich Gen X Midwestern men who love F1. Other reviews are right - CEO wants to be an open book for employees until there’s actual accountability involved. Now that the company has acquired international companies, the people needed for approval of anything can be flying all over the world & slow things down. High turnover across ALL levels, often multiple firings/layoffs clustered. SVP was fired on Friday & their entire presence was erased by Monday. No relocation reimbursement & middle managers are more focused on keeping their position than advocating for their direct reports. Systems for tracking, reporting, expenses, etc. are always changing, let alone the people that are teaching them.