Pros
Consistent with other reviewers (some smart people, large clients that remain), this is not why you are reading this review section anyway.
Kontras
SocialCode writes "People-first. Always." on their website. The reality is the polar opposite. Led by arrogant, inexperienced, snarky GMs and VPs who generally had a single job prior to joining the company, and climbed through the ranks because they were a group of friends, company culture has hit rock bottom then started to dig further down. Think about it: SocialCode recently pivoted from any sort of ad tech, instead putting it 100% on underpaid account managers to juggle between all major platforms out there, all with flawless execution please. You would think this is a questionable strategy, but that's only the beginning. Because leadership is untouchable and unquestionable, yet the agency business is (inevitably) declining, working at SocialCode essentially comes down to an endless reorg grind used as a proxy for assigning blame, while leadership keeps their overpaid roles at the expense of any business and HR logic. This is by far and large the most toxic place I have ever worked at, with a special mention for the General Manager in NYC, whose only previous work experience is a nameless agency sweat shop, yet who believes in being a strategic genius abiding by the laws of Madison Avenue douchebaggery where the volume of hours worked defines someone's value. Meanwhile, all support functions of a well-rounded agency aiming to have a shot in the game are either absent of dysfunctional. HR? Understaffed and scared into sticking to the law of longer-tenured Solutions leads. L&D? There is none. Marketing? Sacrificed to cost-cutting. Finance and budget planning, which is key in ensuring you actually deliver on FTE promised in new contracts signed with Fortune 500 companies? Well about that, common practice is actually to lie about staffing until months into said contracts. At the end of the day, the primary impetus for writing this review is simple: I want to help ensure no one has to experience the self-inflicted, egregious pain this company actively cultivates as their culture.