Pros
This is a tough one, so I’m going to quote a review I saw on SET Creative’s page. “Only pro I see is that they hire under qualified people, so if you are looking to get into the industry take the job as a stepping stone since they will hire you.” WORD.
Cons
Wow. Where to begin…. ZERO work life balance. Upper management will agree to last minute “quick turn” projects when internal resourcing is already spread perilously thin, jeopardizing quality of work all around and putting undue stress on employees. Late night and weekend work are routine. Employees are expected to be plugged into Slack or email at ALL TIMES. Extremely toxic client relationship. It is the norm to receive a text or email for an out of the blue request from a client at 7:00pm on a Saturday and be expected to have something ready by 9:00am Sunday. Terrible “benefits”. Sick time is lumped in with PTO, so if an employee takes a sick day, they can kiss their PTO goodbye in spite of previous weekends & grueling late nights worked. There is no formal process for supplemental income or additional PTO and it is completely arbitrary whether an employee who has been burning the wick at both ends, will get any kick back. While a designer might get a bump in pay for working multiple weekends in a row, a producer is given nothing and told they “should have planned better” and to “treat the company as if it were their own”. STINGY office culture. Basic amenities such as hand soap, paper towels and forks are lacking. Snacks consist of a drawer full of stale candy and the cheapest, most processed foods you can find from the Winco bargain bin. Not kidding. HUGE gender pay gap. We’re talking tens of thousands of dollars for the same role. Extremely passive upper management that won’t give feedback even when asked directly by an employee looking to improve performance. No diversity, mostly straight white dudes. When an employee requested that the office sombrero, better known as the “skunkbrero” be taken down because it is offensive, upper management argued that just because “cultural appropriation is on trend at the moment we shouldn’t be too quick to react”. In the end it was taken down, but seriously!?!
