Catty Management - Anonymous employee MaxMedia Employee Review

The team I work with has worked on a single client with a deep dive into a complex internal tool over almost a year of work. This is unusual for an agency and feels like a luxury. Everyone in the office likes working to deliver and there is a solid focus on consistently improving our process and results.

We have some process things to improve. There have been a few people who have come and gone over the last year.

- MaxMedia is a 24-year-old privately-held company with a strong and mature legacy of good work and great clients. And in that time, the company has reinvented itself several times. It’s an exciting and dynamic environment akin to a startup, in many ways. - MaxMedia benefits from the best employee culture I’ve had the chance to work in. The team is talented, friendly, funny, genuinely likes each other, gets sh*t done, and gets it done without drama. We have no room for drama or toxicity and that makes for a space where we’re all comfortable being more genuine and comfortable. - The culture and the leadership are very people-centric and innovative. We’ve recently experimented with innovations like a 4-day workweek, a revised and improved process, and a lot of introspective initiatives to be more mindful of how we work. - We do some really cool work for a wide variety of clients, from big Fortune 5s all the way down to consumer-product startups. And the work ranges from conventional digital agency deliverables like websites and apps to really complex and challenging projects like business-intelligence solutions, retail interaction strategies, and user-centered branding and communications. Cool sh*t. It really keeps my creative inner-squirrel engaged. - None of that #agencylife BS. I’ve got a great work-life balance. I turn off my email and Slack on weekend and vacations. - I bring my dogs (a jack russell-corgi mix and a rat terrier) to work with me almost every day. There are usually half-a-dozen dogs here and it’s amazing how disarming they are for employees and clients alike. So great.

- We have things we need to improve upon, internally and externally—but nothing we’re not aware of and aren’t trying to iterate upon.