Get experience here, than head somewhere else. - Anonymous employee LaunchSquad Employee Review

1.0
8 May 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lunch is catered once a week. They work with some interesting startups, and are working on creative PR initiatives, like company blogs and a video team.

Cons

My manager's attendance was extremely unpredictable throughout my time there, and frequently spoke poorly of the people we worked closely with behind their backs (while speaking kindly to them in person). He spent his 6-hr workdays on the phone, and completed very little actual work. The overall culture isn't very inclusive, nor as friendly as they'd like to believe. If you aren't a hipster who spends your workdays talking about your Turntable.FM station or going to Coachella, you aren't going to fit in. The office is dark. Everyone is expected to pick up the phone whenever it rings at least 3 times per day, no matter who it's for, leading to probably the most inefficient phone system I've ever had to deal with. The Wifi connection went down at least once per week.

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3.0
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Pros

- Smart, interesting people work here—I loved almost all of my coworkers - Fun company culture - Great benefits - Opportunity to work with some amazing clients; “change-the-world companies” isn’t just a marketing gimmick - You will learn a LOT, and fast. You had the chance to try out many different kinds of work - Relatively fast promotions if you’re a high performer - Dedicated mentorship program is a big perk

Cons

- The workload is frequently overwhelming, and management just tells employees to learn to “juggle” or prioritize better (i.e. figure out which tasks to continually punt to the next day) instead of treating it as a structural issue - No centralized PM system or source of information means employees spend a lot of time chasing information and manually updating a mix of spreadsheets, Slack dashboards, Google Docs, etc. - No shared templates or hub of “good” examples to work from. Every team invents their own standards, workflows, templates. Not only does this sacrifice efficiency but also makes “good work” arbitrary; leadership frequently moves the goalposts - Junior employees are often “voluntold” for work with little regard for their bandwidth. Outright saying “no” to any projects is essentially unheard of - No bonuses; verbal acknowledgements abound, but employees are rarely given material acknowledgement of work well done - Low pay (but typical for an agency environment)

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