Pros
Culture always comes to mind first when I think about my amazing experience working at Solid. Everyone involved in leadership genuinely cares about crafting a fun and inclusive culture and it has a noticeable effect on the rest of the agency. Solid Culture is: Encouragement and resources to grow your craft, open doors to how other departments work and what they do, caring about delivering great work, collaborating with clients by being experts not order-takers, making friends and having fun! The size of the agency means there are opportunities to wear more than one hat and work on a wide variety of work and for different industries. I grew as a designer and learned new skills because of the different types of engagements I worked on. The creative / design team encourages risk-taking, creativity and innovation. There are genuine initiatives to listen to employee feedback to find ways to improve the company and individual departments. I watched this feedback implemented with very positive effects. Tons of opportunities for a mid to jr. designer to grow due to the hands-on experience and coaching which would be much harder to achieve at a large agency.
Cons
Nothing comes to mind. Working at Solid was by far the most impactful experience in the growth of my career.