Friends with some benefits
Arbeitsatmosphäre
A nice mixture of cultures and personalities - across all levels good people who do their best, if needed.
Kommunikation
Hit and miss: leadership tries to be as transparent as they can. Nothing really feels too-down, but many decisions are not explained properly to really get any learnings from them.
Only caveat: friend talks are the most convoluted thing ever. All talk no actions, and please don’t mention you want a raise, that’s not part of that convo (but they will never schedule a salary conversation)
Kollegenzusammenhalt
If you engage, you can develop honest and great relationships. Some might even evolve to actual friendships
Work-Life-Balance
Actually more leaning towards the healthy side for once. But highly dependable on client and project workload.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Debatable, there is a general consensus that the leadership team is doing everything they can - but you don’t actually know what they are deciding or what’s ahead. On projects: some are more actively involved, some are more ominous names floating above just barely supervision work.
In the “friend talks” multiple people got the feeling that random and bogus reasons where ‘conjured up’ or blown out of proportion to halt the career advancement.
Interessante Aufgaben
No sorry.
There is one team who gets preferential treatment because of the closeness to one of the Creative directors- the rest gets mostly crumbs. In the end your job is to come up with “the same same but slightly different” sales campaigns for tobacco products.
Gleichberechtigung
It feels equal - but cannot say as I am a man and won’t know how woman are actually treated.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Not that many around, but those who are seem to be happy and part of the larger community
Arbeitsbedingungen
Nice office, breakfast twice a week, 2-days at office policy and an active IT department. Cannot really complain.
It’s kinda the same as in many other agencies.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
Based on the clients one works for: none.
Based on the agencies own projects and initiatives: on a good trajectory.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Bad review due to the fact that it’s always the same phrase you get when asking for a raise “you are at the top of the list for the next raise”. The problem: everyone is at the top.. and I haven’t seen a raise in my salary for more than 3 years now.
Image
The S&F brand sardines some weight.
But as S&F Commerce you are not part of that image - you are the weird cousins at family meetings that people forget exist.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Leaders will lead.
Workers will work.
You can get to a senior level and that point: any progress stops, get pushed away or not even discussed.