Pros
You get to work remotely on some days and the office is very nice.
Cons
This workplace is seriously toxic, especially if you find yourself on the wrong account with difficult clients and managers. Regularly expect having to stay at work (or online when you’re remote) after hours; there’s always something “urgent”, client is throwing their toys or your boss wants another revision well after 5pm. On any given day, you don’t know what time you’ll end. They’ll tell you to prioritise conceptual work while your entire day is booked with rollout work and meetings; they’ve made it clear that they expect you to sacrifice your personal time to get things done. You won’t receive overtime or even any appreciation for putting in those extra hours—in fact, working late must have been a time management issue on your end, even if you didn’t cause the delay. Or “that’s just advertising”. No, that’s exploiting people and making them neglect their personal lives. That’s why people leave as soon as they find something else—or even before that. My manager was well-known to be passive aggressive, unempathetic and overly critical, with every single member of my team having complained or even cried to me about them. Yet I was continuously gaslit when I raised these concerns. They were never made to take accountability, even though my mental health suffered immensely and I had to resign, because I was sick of the cycle of bullying, gaslighting and being overworked. Upper management said I was the first to complain and acted oblivious… I knew for a fact that others had complained and I’d seen evidence of this. Pay was alright from a market standpoint but they honestly couldn’t have paid me enough to monopolise all my time, drain me of my creativity and joy, and micromanage me in that hostile environment any longer. I’m glad I left when I did because people have been stuck at this place for years, being worked to the bone and not seeing any career growth for it.
