Pros
coworkers are great, some WFH days
Cons
The CEO doesn't want to pay for people with senior level experience so hires juniors saying they'll be trained, but they just get trained by other juniors and have to google how to do things. Everyone uses their own laptops and it took a very very long time for the CEO to finally get Adobe for the company. Designers used to have to pay for their own (but weren't allowed to freelance outside of the company). Time tracking is the most important part of the job, which makes sense because it's an agency and they have to bill the clients. But no one is properly trained in how to track time, and many employees paid hourly lose out on money because they're only paid for what they track and were never told how to properly track a day. You're expected to produce high level quality work, but aren't given enough time to do so. If you go over the amount of time allotted for your task, you get in trouble. The CEO plays favourites and runs the company like it's a sorority. She loses a lot of talented team members because she doesn't listen when they bring up problems. She wants to scale her business into a larger agency with bigger clients, but won't be able to within the restrictions she's built into the company. You work out of her condo, which she seems to think is a benefit, even though team members consistently ask for an office or to wfh full time. There are work from home days, but she's stingy with them and would rather you be with her in Thornhill to keep her company. Managers have no management experience and it shows. There’s rarely any positive reenforcement - you only hear back when you’ve done something wrong. All mistakes, no matter how minor, are blown up to make you feel like you’re destroying the company. Micromanaging is encouraged, giving team members no chance to grow on their own. If you're looking for some experience right out of school, In Social will hire you. If you work hard and try to learn new things, you'll get a decent resume line. But just know that this will only be a stepping stone to the rest of your career. Past employees have gone on to work at really great companies, so this experience will take you somewhere. You just have to suffer along the way.
