Avantages
I am reluctant to say this because I don't really feel right putting a positive spin on any aspect of this company, BUT working here *can* help position you for a decent job at a more name-brand and "cooler" company (ie. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, a better agency, etc.) because of how much experience you will gain (experience which, unfortunately, correlates directly to how much you'll suffer). However, it is SOOO not worth it. Just go directly to Facebook, or find one of the dozen other avenues to help get you there that don't involve subjecting yourself to the hell that is Socialcode. Consider a different career path, seriously nothing is worth it.
Inconvénients
This company is terrible. Management is terrible. Aside from maybe one or two people, the higher-ups at this company are completely ill-equipped for their roles. I'm honestly unsure what the managers at this company are setting out to do because I'm pretty sure their sole purpose should be to help manage teams & alleviate the stresses and workloads of those under them, and yet that could not be further from reality. Which leads me to believe that the managers at SC either have shockingly little understanding of what their subordinates are actually doing on the day-to-day, or are genuinely bad people who don't care at all that the people who they are tasked to "manage" and support are actually suffering to the point of it taking an incredibly negative toll on their mental health and overall well being. I mean, if you're running a company in which the most junior employees are the last ones to sign off every day (ie. 10 pm or later), then you [the manager] are not really doing your job well, if at all. Also- company significantly lacks culture (>90% white but C-suite loves to talk about diversity for years on end without making *any* actual moves toward diversifying), and operates like that of a fraternity/sorority house. TLDR, if you accept a job at Socialcode, expect the following: - Your manager(s) will not support you, even if/when you reach out and ask for help (which no one does enough because we're all experiencing Stockholm Syndrome from this place). - You will be blamed for the subsequent mistakes you make during the periods in which you were drowning and complaining about being overworked (which tbh will be the majority of your time!). - You will literally have bi-weekly nightmares about work, at least. - You will see your friends/socialize one eighth the frequency you did before this job. - You will be consumed by this job from the day you step in until the day you leave (or tbh it's taken a lot of us even longer to fully shake our stresses from SC) - You will be dealing with the hours and stress and overall lack of happiness that many investment bankers deal with, while being paid a quarter of their salary. So honestly just get into banking. My last last thing-- Senior Account Manager positions are the absolute worst because you essentially do all of the same things as AMs but have the weight of more responsibility, and you don't get paid overtime. If (god forbid) you're going in as an SAM, seriously do not accept an offer under $100k.