Positive Growth - Director of Production The Mark Employee Review

There is a bar next door. The office itself is quite nice and Liberty Village is a neat area to work in.

- The worst professional environment I have ever experienced. This is mostly fostered by the CEO, who emails and calls on week nights, weekends, during times where you're ill or when you've specified you will be with your children and thus, unavailable. The rest of the higher-ups follow suit. You are fully expected to be on call for late night requests. The "lunch hour" that is provided at most places of work doesn't apply here. Sometimes you'll have the time to scurry out and grab food but everyday, I saw people eat as quickly as possible at their desks. - The CEO caters heavily to clients on all creative projects and won't push back, implementing every change the client asks for, damaging the work creatively and robbing it of any chance to resonate with audiences. - The chaos I experienced in the CEO making unexpected/surprise decisions on the directions projects should be going in (after great satisfaction was expressed all along the way) only a few hours before something was due to a client was common and overwhelming. I often had to cancel my evening or weekend plans due to his whims, tell my children I could not participate in activities with them, spending my time working instead. His expectations often were communicated poorly in the initial stages, leaving guesswork to occur, and thus more overtime to be spent trying to understand what he actually wanted. - I have never seen such high turnover of employees in a small company. In the time I worked there, nearly half of the people who were there when I started had left.

Nice office space. You will make some good friends here. They will be other newcomers or freelancers. They will become your allies, which you will most certainly need as they will help you maintain sanity through the madness of working here. They are your only means of surviving The Mark. You will form a bond with your allies, forged through shared misery.

Utter Chaos. You will sit at your desk waiting for work for hours on end, only to receive it at 5:15pm. You'll then be expected to start your work day. Your insight and opinion won't matter here regardless of your 10 or 20 years of previous working experience. Everyone is treated like inept interns. You will be undermined and micromanaged like crazy. Your creativity will be stifled with too many cooks in the kitchen and too many internal parties reviewing projects, emails and everything else before going to clients. You'll often feel like just a pair of hands, throwing away your skillset and years of working knowledge. You will spend half of your time trying to work around the many layers of internal friction and non-sense . You will battle with other members of the "team", versus creating great work together. No clear workflow... And no respect for creative...just a jumbled mess of madness. Micro-management is at an all time high here. AVOID.