Reviews van AKQA

Pluspunten

location Nice people parties creative

Minpunten

alot of work for just one person with low pay.

Pluspunten

My colleagues are great, they've been nothing but kind and comprehensive with me in this tumultuous experience of moving abroad to a new continent. The pace of work seems good (I've only been here for a week). And the office is indeed very charming.

Minpunten

Companies love words such as diversity and inclusion, but I don't think they really understand what it means. It's not just about the colour of your skin, it's also the different economical backgrounds of individuals from different countries. I too believe it's "fair" to offer the same package to everyone in the office, but at the same time, I know that people, specially from third world countries (a concept they don't seem to grasp because they assume everyone has the same level of accessibility, no matter how many times I try to explain this), have different needs. Instead of feeling contained during this process, I've been feeling left out in the cold. My problems don't matter because, at the end of the day, it's "fair", right?

Pluspunten

Good clients and opportunities if you know how to 'play the agency game' let's say.

Minpunten

Overworked, underpaid, under-valued, no Product Leadership, I was ignored when trying to grow the team, the essentially want you to do what management want, to keep the client happy and keep the money coming in. They talk a lot about employee mental health and career opportunities, but really their priority is to grow the company and keep money coming in. Also, they keep people lower down to keep paying them less. Not good environment for Product Designers. Could be dangerous to someone starting out IMO, or could be a great launching platform.

Pluspunten

Amazing humans to work with, very nice clients and a lot of creative freedoom

Minpunten

The lack of transpenrency on the salaries

Pluspunten

Some of the people I worked with were nice utside of work. Most were less nice at work, because working here means you have to have an attitude. Location was pretty nice I guess, if that matters.

Minpunten

The Amsterdam office only has one thing going for it. The name. Everybody seem SO proud of being part of AKQA and have an attitude about them, especially senior management. During my time there I questioned what I was doing there the whole time and if it was worth my time (late nights, weekends etc). No good work ever came out from any of the teams. I wonder if they even reflect on this themselves, because wether you like awards or not... this office is getting NONE. ZERO recognition yet we were all worked like slaves because the CD or whoever thought they were on the right track. Which they obviously weren't since it was all garbage. I learned to work hard and fast, but other than that I regret wasting my time at this place so much. It's time I'll never get back and a big black hole in my portfolio.

Pluspunten

Well obvisously the name. It's the main selling point to new employees and to be honest also the best thing about the place.

Minpunten

A lot of late days and long weekends. After all that effort has been made not much good comes out the other end. Too many chefs involved making everything disconnected or vanilla.