Razorfish – “Smart people. Large company. Your experience may vary.”

Pros

Razorfish is a large company with many offices around the world. As a company, I think it's pretty good. You'll work with very smart people to create great work. It excels in large-scale website design and development with a very strong UX practice.

Up until recent layoffs, work/life balance was pretty good.

It wants to own more of the offline work and become a full-service agency to its clients as some recent work has shown.

Cons

It lacks cohesion sometimes because of the way it is set up by regions. Therefore things like thought leadership or discipline leadership are few and far between. You'll find that more in the local level in some offices.

As with many interactive agencies, Razorfish is struggling to play with the big offline agencies. I believe they'll get there but it will take time.

Advice to Senior Management

Because of the regional setup, I find that Razorfish lacks a cohesive brand and point of view. This is not only important externally to clients and the media, but I believe more important to the employees so that we really know what Razorfish is about.