Pros
You'll work with some genuine, smart people on a day-to-day basis. This is what kept me here longer than I originally thought. Interesting enough projects and clients for a midwestern agency. Room to shape your individual experience...to an extent.
Cons
The company is a complete and absolute mess. Each member of senior leadership is on a separate page about the direction of the business, and it's left the agency in an identity crisis. These opposing directions often skew to the personal wants of the senior leadership team and their close circle (yep cliques exist, and you'll know immediately who's apart of them by how many times they are lovingly mentioned by name in all company meetings). Employees are left with disjointed and fragmented company goals, backed by little vision and insights, forced to take on much more work than they can handle. Burnout is alive and well here! If you think it stops there, it doesn't. Paradowski also suffers from a lack of trained people managers and skill leaders. Employees within the close circle (surprise, it's mostly men!) are often promoted to director or lead roles, despite having no managerial training and little to no experience in the area they're suppose to be leading. Staffing and promotional decisions are made on a whim by senior leadership, typically after a key employee leaves—which happens a lot lately. Many of these promotional decisions are extremely biased, depending on who you know or who you worked with previously. Honestly, it's embarrassing how obviously and excessively one-sided it all is. A previous Glassdoor review explained this more, but it's since been removed. The day-to-day view is slightly better, but not by much. Several people above you will take credit for your thoughts, words, and ideas—not all, but too many. You will rarely be thanked for your hard work, especially if you work on the bigger, billable clients that senior leadership rarely touches. Your expertise will most likely be ignored if it gets in the way of those selfish senior leadership team goals mentioned earlier. Retention is at an all time low, it's no secret. Layoffs happened last year. Diversity is essentially nonexistent. The culture is gone. They're scrambling to save reputation. I really want them to figure it out, but so much damage has been done it may be irreversible.