Pluspunten
Hands down, the people who work here are the best thing about OffWhite. The team is full of extremely talented young designers and professionals who are great at what they do. It is truly a great group of people who are fun to work with and be around in and out of the studio. Just all around awesome people. The projects we get to work on are really interesting and come with a wide variety of design opportunities for big and small clients (mostly packaging, industrial, marketing, and web design). The office itself is pretty nice. Times Square isn't the most ideal location to work in, but the space is comfortable and the commute isn't too bad. It is now a pretty standard 9-6:30 work day which was the result of confronting the CEO about the previously excessive work hours.
Minpunten
Josh White, is the only real con that comes with working at Offwhite, and since he is the CEO of the studio its an amazingly huge problem. Josh is supposed to be the Creative Director but Creative Dictator would be more appropriate. He does not seem to have a grasp on the necessity for nurturing creativity in a design studio. Instead he insists on fostering a factory where his employees are cogs in a machine that are meant to churn out designs so he can capitalize on them. This is also why he has no qualms in viewing his employees as expendable, particularly the graphic designers, which is part of the reason why the turnover rate in the office is so high. He attributes anything good coming out of the studio to himself but removes himself from any mistakes or detriments that may show up during the design process. His delusions of grandeur are interesting seeing as he is extremely difficult to respect as a CD. Unfortunately he lacks even the most basic necessity of a good CD, which is a good design eye. His feedback, suggestions, and creations lessen or ruin the quality of the designs the team created way too often. It doesn't take long to realize that hot air and buzz words are all he has to offer anyone. He can also be exceedingly inappropriate when it comes to social conventions. His lack of social awareness allows him to make racist, sexist, and overall ignorant remarks so casually and too often. He does not hide the fact that he has more respect for the men in the office than the women (referring to women as half-brains without value). Although he is non-confrontational this leads him to turn to passive aggressions to express his discontent which makes him come off as extremely disingenuous and manipulative. Overall he is unappreciative of the work, time, and effort his employees put into the studio and its projects. It is extremely difficult to receive acknowledgement from him for a job well done no matter what contributions a designer has made for the studio. When these long list of concerns were expressed to him he made sure to ignore them to continue his delusions of infallibility. In his eyes he is the only competent and important person in the studio, which I assure you is not true. He has created an unhealthy work environment that squashes creativity and extinguishes any passion you may have for design. If his flaws as a boss aren't enough of a deterrence, the laughably small salary he offers will be.