Pros
Half day Fridays, but let’s be honest, you will have already worked over 40 hours by the time Friday rolls around. There’s a policy of “no meetings on Fridays”, so that’s the only time you can get anything done.
Cons
Scummy ad agency. I was paid below market rate and given more work than my hours allowed. Constant unnecessary meetings, so I could never get any actual work done. I always felt like I was in trouble and that my every move was being tracked. My account lead was awful. He was very unresponsive, uninspiring, and uninterested in me as an human being. I watched him gaslight and lie to clients when he let tasks fall through the cracks. Extremely cliquey. I felt deeply excluded from the company culture as a remote employee, and I was overcome with the feeling that all of the people who thrived here were popular in high school in the bad way. They give “unlimited time off”, but it was a huge administrative pain to actually go through with it. Also, it’s frowned upon to take time off during your client’s busy season, and between all TEN of my clients, that was year round. Not to mention, you have to be on-call during major holidays. I was never able to fully disconnect. The kicker came in January 2023 when they laid off 10% of the staff without warning. This came after months of reassuring us that there would be no layoffs. This also came a few days after an “anonymous” employee satisfaction survey. They laid off numerous people on maternity leave… which is just evil. I had Sunday Scaries every night while working here. When I realized I was being laid off, I felt a mix of panic, validation, and hope. The following months were difficult, but in hindsight, it was the best thing this god forsaken company ever did for me. Don’t work here if you have any self respect. Working here, buying pop-up ad space for a living, made me lose all of mine.