The worst place I ever worked - TAKE HEED IN THE BAD REVIEWS
Pros
The training department are excellent and all the initiatives to help people feel like it's a great place to work are lovely. Generally most people working here are absolutely lovely and there is a lot of 'fluffy stuff' like nights out and in house events that break up the monotony.
Cons
The interview was a pack of lies and management don't care about you unless you can bill straight away. The salary is a joke, every other agency pays more as I have found out from interviewing recently. I left a job with a significantly higher salary to move into recruiting and none of my previous experience at management level was taken in account. Nobody is treated equally with favouritism rife within teams and from higher management. Training does not transfer over onto the desk, through no fault of the training department, I have seen more than one person ask for help applying the training into their role but they were either let go or moved with the phrase 'recruiting isn't for everyone' thrown around to explain away managements inability to develop people. The only people doing well either have good line managers (which are scarce) or by sheer luck (which is me). Most line managers were promoted to give top billers more salary and stop them from leaving for an agency that pays more, this just means that you have no people managers which is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately I am just keeping the head down until I leave which will be soon and anyone else I talk to are the same. Everyone seems to have been accused of 'talking at the water cooler' or being distracted at the last round of performance reviews so it looks like a tactic of bullying your staff into submission is the only tool in the MDs belt, she could really do with a course on how to run a business and never be allowed to speak to anyone without a member of HR present. The way she talks about people behind their backs is shocking and we will probably all be called in about this review like the last time a bad review went up about her. At least this time I will be accused correctly. I also know for a fact that most of the positive reviews posted recently were management trying to hide the bad reviews so take heed in the bad ones.