Razorfish – “Great people - Poor management”

Pros

The people on the teams are good people. The ability to work across geographies and diverse personalities with a passion to deliver and drive to make a difference

Cons

Focus on selling the deal regardless of the ability to staff and complete the deal. Expectation that the team works long hours to cover up for the inaccurate project scope estimates. Bunker mentality when on a project with leadership quick to point fingers at the lower ranked team members for items that were created by the lack of management oversight when working on the deal. Leadership team focus is on the margin and how to sell the next deal regardless of the cost to the employees of Razorfish Upper leadership team is not held to the same standards as the other team members.

Advice to Senior Management

Nurture the core values.. put more emphasis into them, encourage to be fanatical advocates of core values. There was time when we used to think anything was possible, we believed we are one of the best companies on the face of earth (regardless of our size).. the past couple of years have been pretty challenging to continue that thinking