Pros
The folks tat work at Precision Effect are a lot of fun to work with. Lots of energy, creativity, and hard work. Boston is a wonderful city to live in and I never plan to leave it! The clients and projects are very interesting as well
Cons
The agency, at the end of the day, is no different than the majority of other pharma advertising agencies. They do the same types of deliverables with little innovation. Their new offices are in a building which is in in a sketchy part of town. Lots of cubicles with people housed like cattle. Noise, noise, noise, You have to pass homeless people and drug dealers to get into the office. Some of the top management are too controlling. While Precision Effect can draw on some of their sister agencies for scientific help, their "Medical Department" is very weak and led by person with an MA in English! This does not inspire scientific/medical credibility in the least. None of their Boston-based medical writers have advanced scientific degrees (PhD, PharmD, MD, DO). All in all, the company is a mirror image of a million other pharma advertising. They have grown in size, but not in innovative ideas. This is very surprising given the fact that Boston is full of highly trained docs and scientists.
