Incredible Opportunity - Avis employé Graphic Designer Fuzzco

You'll get to work with interesting clients and take responsibility for big projects. The bar is set very high and everyone hired generally has excellent taste. You will undoubtedly do your best work and emerge with an impressive portfolio. The pace is insanely fast (some people like this), so you need to know what you're doing or figure it out fast. No one is going to teach you. My efficiency and skills definitely improved, but mostly through my own determination. The people you work with will be some of the kindest, most creative people you'll ever meet. They're really what make the company shine. Everyone from project managers, to developers, to illustrators, cares deeply about design and delivering top notch work. If there's one thing Fuzzco gets right, it's their hiring. Truly amazing people. Fuzzco also does a nice job of nurturing community for its employees. There's an annual retreat, wine tastings, family-style dinners. They go out of their way to make you feel welcome.

The fast pace can be a negative aspect if you're not someone who thrives in that type of environment. It becomes a larger problem when it gets paired with a certain level of micromanagement. You could work on a project for weeks, only to have someone review your work the night before the deadline and completely change it. Many issues stem from the fact that the owners don't have any industry experience. This can be good and lead to non-traditional approaches to management and creative direction, but it also has a dark side. There is a no-freelance policy that limits your creative and financial freedoms outside of the office. You will be expected to be available during public holidays if the need arrises. Oftentimes it seems clients have a larger voice than employees.

The designers on staff are amazing, great people Clients were cool

Where to start? They literally try to control your entire life: no freelance policy on top of bad pay and less-than-inflation raises, bad PTO policy, non-existant sick leave, below average perks, and constantly cutting and combating the ones people do like (they cut our conference stipend, for example). The culture is toxic, mostly from the top/middle-management down. It's micromanagement, creative steamrolling ("just do what i say"), constant comparison to other designers on the team, unrealistic timeline/work output expectations are the norm and make you feel like you're underperforming or not doing enough or just bad at your job. They'll steal your ideas and sell them on their store, and take credit for them in magazines/on social, anywhere else they can. They refuse to let you post work on your website or socials unless they've posted it first (but sometimes they never get around to posting it.) If they have retreats, gifts, events that celebrate the staff they are extremely low-budget in the name of being quaint/twee/funny, despite owners being extremely wealthy. I could go on.. do not recommend.