Pluspunten
Consistent with the other reviews, the pay and benefits are good. However, these come with the price of physical, mental, and emotional stress. They like to throw little happy hour parties in an attempt to boost morale. Last, you’ll meet some really incredible people that make it really hard to leave, but trust me, you’ll want to leave.
Minpunten
This place is a sweatshop, plagued with politics, cliques, and poor management. Things are socialized extremely poorly, leaving most people with a feeling of isolation and needing to fend for themselves. CURE is very Account-centric, and most Account teams (cliques) breed a very “us vs them” mentality. A lot of the toxicity comes from the ego of the Account teams. Creatives are hit and miss. Creative Directors don’t manage or allocate resources appropriately, creatives are not onboarded at properly so there is no consistency in process across teams. Some creatives are go getters, hard working, and great teammates. Others are lazy and take advantage of the system. Project Management (IP or Integrated Production as it’s called here) is a mess. Management hits the reset button every year or so, making nothing consistent. You’ve got seniors who are awful, can’t handle the simplest tasks, and are overpaid to do nothing, while also having juniors who are rockstars but are left on their own to run multi million dollar pieces of business. They are supposed to be the keepers of process but are all on different pages. Certain managers don’t manage, and others are worth their weight in gold. Bad behavior seems to be rewarded in this department. 70+ hour weeks are common, it’s a game of slap-hands constantly. Extremely toxic, cliquey atmosphere. You’ll do what you think is right only to be scolded for not doing something you weren’t told to do in the first place. Last, people will spend hours crafting SOWs, only to have teams understaffed anyway, so what’s the point? I’ve never been more pessimistic, stressed, depressed, or mentally exhausted then I have been working here.