Pros
- You're going to work with some very smart people. - You will get access to a lot of valuable information that will be transferable throughout the growing retail media industry no matter what company you go to next; because Flywheel is truly ahead of their competition from a capabilities and knowledge standpoint. - Flywheel has a massive client list, so you will have opportunity to get contacts around the industry in a vast amount of categories across many different companies. - Salary is okay - There really are good people at Flywheel Digital, but they are starting to lose those good people due to being overlooked constantly and massive workloads without career growth and/or bonuses.
Cons
- Career growth used to be a strength at Flywheel, but 2 acquisitions later you can end up in the same role for a few years if you don't go out of your to get yourself noticed; and even then you still may not be promoted. They're actively working on their career growth, so hopefully they resolve this. - There are no bonuses of any kind; not performance or annual. We didn't even get a bonus when Omnicom purchased Flywheel. I doubt bonuses are coming any time soon either based on leadership totally shutting the idea down in several team meetings. - Moved to a hybrid work schedule in June 2024; requiring 12 days per month in the office. - Flywheel has not only been acquired twice, but also acquired several companies as well; which resulted in a lot of people who have been with the company well before Flywheel's ascension on the back burner in terms of career growth. - Staffing issues, especially in the client services department which is one of the biggest concerns because Flywheel is a white glove agency. So the expectation is that you're everything for a client that they need/want you to be, but that's hard to do when you're stretched thin across multiple accounts. - Flywheel was preparing to IPO, and even announced it to everyone which got a lot of peoples' hopes up for a big pay day in equity. Shortly after (probably a month or two later), we got a surprise announcement that Omnicom acquired us and we were not getting any form of an acquisition bonus because it was a takeover. That was a huge let down and something Flywheel pretty much just brushed over.
