Big Spaceship Reviews

Pros

Good people! Lots of talent

Cons

Bad management. Not much room to grow.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay real salaries

Pros

Really great clients. I'll say that again, because it's pretty much the only real benefit to working here: REALLY GREAT CLIENTS.

Cons

This place gets a lot of hype and I'm not sure why. It's not a good place to work. I found it (along with those on my team) to be a very depressing place to work. The space is damp, dark and very uninspiring. Bring some Valium. It feels like a sweatshop (there is an ACTUAL sweatshop down the hall), and they treat you like it working until 9 or 10 on the regular. The pay was okay. They hire a lot of freelancers and interns for very short periods of time, and so there is a lot of turn.

It's also not really an ad agency. It's much more of an expensive development shop, which is cool if that's what you're looking for.

Advice to Senior Management

Create some kind of HR practice within the company. A lot of your employees are depressed. The little events here and there help, but the day-to-day... it's a lot worse than you might realize.

Pros

interesting clients, work, a team based work environment with many talented people to learn from. A fair amount of social gather: beer and foosball.

Cons

There is a relatively high number of interns working at the company with very low compensation despite the company profiting greatly from them.

Advice to Senior Management

Compensation is below average compared to larger agencies. Working late is common for developers, producers, and sometimes designers. High turnover rate (like similar studios in the industry)