Very limited perspective for a company crippled by admin and operating as a French public service
Pros
Unfortunately limited and purely materialistic... Few perks such as freebees gathered from tradeshows (food, wines, spirits) and other, excellent medical coverage for Asian standards, 25 days of annual leave, being on the account side, few good opportunities to travel.
Cons
The company has no clue how to operate in the modern communication world, nor does it have a clear strategy for where it's going at. It's been recently acquired by French event group Hopscotch and the little barons already in place in the agency are all priding themselves with their newly acquired "VP" titles but they don't have the slightest clue about what they're doing. Not to mention the leadership in Asia is clearly weak with a guy punching way too high above his weight... Back in the days the company used to heavily rely on public founding from the EU and subsidies from agricultural boards to promote F&B products in foreign markets. Although they're trying to change that, old habits die hard and they still behave like an old and dusty administration, heavily hierarchical and centralised. Not to mention one better negotiates one's package hard before joining as once in the place they're stingy beyond imagination and completely disconnected from the realities of the markets they operate in.