Pros
Some of the people are really nice and work incredibly hard. That’s literally it.
Cons
-Terrible culture and work/life balance. - Lack of senior management with experience outside the company - you’ll find that most of them started there years ago with very little experience, have been promoted internally through nepotism or necessity rather than merit and now look to people who are more junior in title to give them direction. - Everyone is expected to be a doormat for the Sales Team to trample over on the way to collecting their commission and anything the client says goes, even if it means the other teams are going to suffer in the process. - Decisions are made with money in mind, even when it is clearly raised that it will have a detrimental effect on the teams. They don’t care about anyone’s well-being in the slightest and would rather people burn out or breakdown and leave than taking on fewer projects. - Don’t get attached to anyone because the staff turnover is HIGH. Even freelancers are turning down decent day rates because they can’t stand it. Senior Management ignore the underlying issues that cause so many people to leave. - Every one is too busy working on so many projects at once that no one cares about any of them at all. - Creativity is lacking and apathy reigns (see above). - They will (try to) take on any project going, even if it makes no Editorial or Creative sense and force teams into working on things most decent publishers wouldn’t touch. - HR/Finance/Ops are all run out of the Hong Kong office so the other regions have no autonomy over basic processes and decisions are made so far from the reality of everyone’s day to day working environment that they actually make everything worse. - The pay is SO bad for anyone not earning bonuses/commission. Ironically, these are also the people who have to work so hard to execute the projects and then they send out the company results that show all that work is making millions in profit when most people can’t even get a competitive salary. Seriously, it’s a joke. - Terrible comms/working relationships between departments. Everyone is trying so hard to protect themselves and their teams because they’ve been burned by bad decision making so many times that collaborative working is like pulling teeth. - The “office” (co-working space) is really dry and lacks energy but this actually reflects the company itself so maybe that is something they got right.
