Pros
- Some of management is really great and friendly. Overall most people are nice and easy to get along with. - Reimburses for internet up to about $70 - Reimburses for smaller WFH expenses like monitor or keyboard but not a desk or chair. - Medium transparency into the company's wellbeing - Is a good first job right out college to learn the industry fast, but if you stay past 1 year you will be missing out on money you could be making elsewhere.
Cons
- 90% of Managers have never managed anywhere else so they lack leadership skills needed to be a good manager. - Hire a lot of entry level people and hire within in which can be good, but then anyone who is hired not entry level is at a HUGE disadvantage and the team will lack skills diversification. - Pay is really bad compared to other similar positions. After leaving, I was able to get a total compensation 30% better than at Unified. - Benefits suck. Being owned by a super old company (iHeart Media) the benefits are also old world. - No physical office, no chance or returning to the office any time soon. - Management doesn't communicate with each other. Problems are constantly talked about in 1:1s and they say "I will circle back" but it just feels like buzz words being thrown around and no real solutions are put in place. - Teams are super over or under worked. Management has no idea the bandwith of individual people. Some people have 3+ hours a day with no real work, others are working extra hours and are over worked on too many accounts. - No new accounts have been acquired since being bought by IHM. All new clients are accounts brought over from IHM so its not net new revenue. - All clients are other larger agencies (TeamOne, Saatchi & Saatchi, Merkley & Partners, Hearts & Science, etc). Unified is just the social outsource tool for those larger agencies so Unified has no actual say in strategy or planning. - Weird career momentum. Managed Services has a tiered team (Campaign/Account Coordinatior --> Campaign/Account Associate --> Campaign/Account Manager --> Senior Campaign Manager/Account Strategy Manager). From start to finish, about 2.5 years trajectory but only make MAX 25% pay increase from start to finish. - You are given more responsibilities before promoted/given raise, usually for at least 3 months or more.