Huge Reviews

Pros

Decent clients and good pay.

Cons

55- 65hr hour work weeks.

Pros

- Great learning opportunity, especially for junior or mid-level designers. You will be surrounded by designers with a variety of backgrounds and specialties. This in addition to working with numerous clients in different industries will let you grow your skills quickly. - Senior leadership is mostly empathetic, low-ego individuals that seem to genuinely care about employees and frequently solicit feedback. They do make attempts to respond to employee concerns but often it is not enough to actually remedy the issues. -The company hires many people from non-traditional work backgrounds and is willing to train and grow these people. I think they do a better job of this than most other agencies and tech companies. - Generous time off. We have 3 weeks a year where the office is completely closed (this was implemented 2021). In addition we have unlimited PTO and are required to take at least 2 weeks on top of the 3 weeks of office closure. However, there are limitations to when and for how long you can take off and requests must usually be made a month in advance.

Cons

- Bad work/life balance. This is not to say that I work a lot more than 40 hours per week (although more senior people definitely do.) But the hours are unpredictable. I might spend all Monday morning with nothing to do to then be put on a project at 3pm and told to have something ready to share the next morning. Sometimes we’re told one day before a client review that the client completely changed their mind and we have to redesign a page. I am never able to make plans on weeknights because I don’t know if I’ll have to work late until the day of. Whenever I have brought this up to my manager her response is simply “that’s the way agencies work” and that it’s on me to get more comfortable with this ambiguity. - Poor transparency. I often don’t know what project I’ll be on until the day before I start, sometimes day of. I also don’t always know when my last day on a project is (twice I have started Monday working on a project just to be told later that day that my last day on it was the previous Friday.) Now that we have recently had a company reorg I also have no knowledge of what projects are in the pipeline, what projects others are working on, or even know when new people join the company. It’s like everyone works with blinders on. - Boring projects. The majority of projects I have been on are about building static marketing pages. We also have very little creative control and clients usually just want us to stick with the status quo. The majority of people that stay at Huge long-term are those whose entire careers have been at agencies and don’t realize that there are better jobs out there. Employees from the Colombian offices also tend to view Huge more positively because the pay is higher compared to Colombian companies and they have a chance to work with internationally recognized brands. When reading reviews I recommend filtering for your specific country for a more accurate perspective.

Pros

Great Pay! Great Benefits! Great Communication!

Cons

none at this time that i can think of.