Strategic Agency - Aggressive Culture - Digital Strategist Defero Employee Review

2.0
28 Apr 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Creative, strategic, data-driven team (the best I've been a part of) - Good agency structure with a team dedicated purely to strategy and client success - Relatively competitive pay and benefits

Cons

- Overly focused on culture -- feels more like a cult with mandatory participation outside of work hours, sing-alongs, team building events, etc. Aggressive questioning from CEO/team if absent from last-minute company events. - Overly focused on being "cool" -- directing employees to be "extra cool" when clients are in, dress a particular way, play specific music, etc. - Hire lots of interns and entry-level employees (crapshoot of quality to save $ on payroll & exploits people who don't know better about healthy work cultures) - Outsource lots of work vs structured for internal strategic alignment - Company focused on tried and true tactics of what works but not open to bigger, innovative thinking - Outdated PTO structure (be more flexible, grant more sooner, etc)

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5.0
12 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, fun work, learned lots

Cons

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4.0
24 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I've been able to move forward a lot in my time here. They definitely reward out-of-the-box thinking and appreciate those who challenge the norms. It's a fun culture and very relaxed in attire. Plus there's a food truck on Wednesdays.

Cons

Office is a little small for the size of the team and the building doesn't allow dogs. Also they do not really offer any work from home options but are pretty flexible with scheduling most of the time.

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