Pros
Met a couple good people there (entirely incidentally).
Cons
The single worst agency I've ever worked for. The NYC office is the most paranoid, backwards-looking, sexist environment. If you ever watched "The Handmaid's Tale" and said, " I'd love to live there," then, boy, do I have the office for you! Culture is non-existent. Every once in a while they'll put like 2 bottles of wine out in the kitchen and call it a happy hour (meanwhile the executives are out spending $2,000 on champagne at lunch). Raises aren't dependent on the quality of work -- good people are regularly ignored and sidelined in favor of suck-ups. (They'll also insist they don't have the money but see earlier note re: $2000 champagne lunches.) The only way to make sure you keep moving upward at this agency is to mercilessly report on your fellow teammates. Leadership loves nothing more than gossip, and if anyone is ever known to express a negative opinion about anything in the agency, they are ruthlessly hunted down and often removed from the majority of their projects as punishment. Groupthink is the only way to survive here. It's like a cult, without the comfy robes and free kool-aid. People you've worked next to for months will suddenly be fired at the end of the day. There will be no explanation provided. In fact, leadership will pretend as if that person never existed. It'll start to make you feel insane. You'll question your entire being. Creative at this shop is dreadful. Stuck in the 80s conceptually (and not the fun 80s of neon colors and good music). The clients are bad but almost don't even matter, because leadership will make all your ideas so, so, so much worse before they even get to the clients. At times, we were begging to even make a banner ad. A banner ad! Please! Just one! There's a reason this place can only win accounts that go bankrupt within the year. This agency is dying, and deserves to die. And if you've read all this and are STILL considering accepting a job at the&partnership (they're always hiring because no one wants to work there), do yourself a favor and google "the&partnership top 5 email" before you sign onto this place. It's rotten all the way to the top.