Pros
- Good place to build hands-on SEO content experience
- Exposure to different clients, industries, briefs, and content formats
- Helpful for learning agency workflows, content systems, editing processes, and SEO expectations
- Opportunity to improve research, structure, and content quality over time
- Got to work with some amazing and highly talented people
- Flexible working style, as you could manage your time as long as the work was completed
Cons
- Pay was low compared to the level of work, experience, and responsibility expected
- Growth opportunities were limited and not always handled fairly
- Office politics affected decisions around recognition, promotions, progression and access to opportunities
- Some experienced team members could be overlooked even after years of consistent quality work
- Content management was poor, especially around planning, quality control, writer support, and feedback
- Feedback around progress was not always fair and at times felt biased rather than based on the actual quality of the work