Know what you're getting into - Anonymous employee R/GA Employee Review

- Extremely political - No culture - Bad work/life balance on the big accounts; will be in office until midnight and on weekends often - No structure so without a strong mentor at the start you're doomed - They strive for innovative but their client's ATL agency will get the big idea briefs and in most cases you'll be stuck making banners and social - although you'll still stay until midnight TRYING to sell big ideas the client probably doesn't want - If you're not in the closed loop of "campaign creatives" you probably won't get a shot at the big briefs - you may toil on boring work and when the good brief comes it goes to the "campaigns team" - Bait and switch is rampant. They may sell you on chance at trying different clients and briefs but when you get there you're stuck on one big client. Can be a real problem especially for foreign creatives who are quickly frustrated but have a more difficult time doing something about it because of their visa. - The firm does a lot of cool work with startups and prototyping but most creatives won't get a chance to touch that stuff. - When you look past the nonprofit work like Love Has No Labels there isn't much award-winning work happening. - The creative leans very much to product product product and not storytelling. This can be great for certain visual creatives but usually a downer for writers.