Overall Pretty Good. People are friendly, the work is interesting. - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Howard/Merrell

Fun atmosphere; people really care about you and are interested in getting to know you.

No cons that I could mention thus far.

Relatively good job security - given that the majority of clients are B2B, there is less knee-jerking and budget reductions than seen sometimes with B2C clients. Wonderful understanding of work/life balance - these are mostly all family people and they understand that their employees have families too.

The management team - at best, they lead by committee (which is not a particularly effective management strategy since nothing ever gets decided by concensus, nor does anyone take responsibility for a decision or its repurcussions). At worst, they are utterly out of touch with their employees and how to help the company succeed. There is so much ducking and covering when it comes time to make the hard choices, that instead, the hard choices aren't made and it becomes the responsibility of middle management to make decisions, for which they are later blamed. Employee morale - there is no "team spirit". Departments work in silos with very little integration or free exchange of information. Stability - given the lack of strong management, there have been some major hiccups and there are likely more to come. There have been several layoffs (albeit quiet) over the last year, and there has been high turnover of the voluntary kind as well.