Pros
Open floorplan Free coffee In Pioneer Square so close to bars to drink the pain away
Kontras
Note: This is for the interactive side only. The rest of the company I'm sure does very well with the company's main focus, which is design for video, print, marketing, advertising, etc. *sigh* And yet another Seattle design agency playing web even though they don't understand it. The job, team's capabilities, desire to put out quality work, all of it was misrepresented from Day 1. Fortunately I was able to figure this out within the first few weeks and could re-sign the clients I had dropped for this position. Lots of buzzwords flying around without an understanding of what they mean. No actual experience with modern web or web processes throughout the management team. Stuck on ideas from 10 years ago. It's always a red flag when people that have never built a site before, let alone within the last 5 years, start all of their sentences regarding functionality with "it should only be...", "it shouldn't be more than...", or the ever popular "it's just..." and openly choose to ignore what you're explaining to them. Many blackbox meetings and silo'd conversations happening, no transparency or collaboration. Was left hung out to dry repeatedly, questions and requests for items (information, answers, etc) are consciously and adamantly ignored, actively provides little to no information about projects. Refuses to do their due diligence for projects. For example, purposefully ignoring almost 1 million (out of only 1.6) pageviews a month (paths, drops, etc) on a redesign project simply because the existing site is ugly. That was the last straw for me and I walked. Employees are only paid once a month which raises more than a few alarms on how things are managed.