Potential to be a great place, but the focus is off...
Pros
If you need to garner any type of experience in your career, you can do that at Paco. The office parties are extremely fun! Chilaquiles at every big office celebrations. There's a weekly agency meeting, highlighting what's going on in the agency. The agency is small, so you get a chance to be a part of cool projects - as compared to being at a bigger agency. There's unlimited PTO - BUT there's a catch... You can get all the experience you need, but it comes at a cost....
Cons
The CEO - He's only nice to you, if you suck up to him. If you make even the smallest mistake, instead of speaking with you directly about it, he rolls his eyes at you, and talks around you, acting as is if he doesn't see you. He talks about you to the Account staff as well. He likes having the "El Jefe" persona in the office. Every agency meeting is about a meeting him and the new business manager had, but there was never any new business. He has favorites, but I don't think he realizes that his "favorites" don't have his best interest at heart. It's sad, but true. He'll tear you down and he likes to instill fear in his team. I think this is a reflection of his own fear. The CCO - He's super nice, but as the CCO, he has very little decision making power. Each day is like a telenovela. The company thrives off drama. The Account team is fully staffed, yet there's only (1) person who actually knows what he's doing. The junior AE's want to learn, but the supervisors and director's don't know how to train. One word describes this place in a nutshell... Nepotism. There are at least 4 pairs of parent/child employee duos. They jokingly talk about it, and everyone knows there is favoritism. Unlimited PTO - the catch - they only offer unlimited PTO so they don't have to pay out for accrued vacation when people leave. People are worked until they can't move anymore and there's a high turnover rate. If you're not Latino, be prepared to have your work questioned; period. As a creative agency, they don't care about creative, they care about how cheap to do it. They don't know how to make money as an agency. Cutting hours so it shows the client how "cheap" of a deal it is. The agency's tagline says, "cross-cultural agency for the new America" HOWEVER, the agency work environment doesn't reflect that. You need diversity in the work place, in order to have diversity in the creative. For example, they don't have any African American creatives on staff, yet Paco continues to pitch and lose AA business, hmmm I wonder why?
