Ruska, 

Martin, 

Associates 

GmbH

Unternehmenskultur

Angespannt

das einzige was gut war

What is most striking is the silence and in general the atmosphere of stress and tension that hovers in the air. Sometimes colleagues get fired when you least expect it. There is a feeling of being constantly watched and supervised. In general the mood is very tense and stressful, you can also feel when the bosses are in the office and when they are not.

This is perhaps one of the biggest problems: communication is done through e-Mail with misunderstandings on a daily basis. I find it absurd that they haven't yet found an alternative and smarter way to communicate than email (like Slack?). Then you receive e-Mails from the bosses very rude and humiliating, with tones above decency. Who do they think they are?

Never had any kind of problem but you can feel how stressed out and unhappy the team is, frankly I don't know how the bosses don't get it, they probably prefer to look the other way. Don't rely too much on the know-how and skills of senior colleagues, they may decide to leave the agency when you least expect it. Consider that the team changes quite often (you can also check it from the most popular working social media). And usually when employees leave their jobs so often it is a symptom of a deep distress. Don't be fooled by what they write on their website, the team is not made up of 16 people but rather 6 (including the bosses). I also strongly doubt that any designer has ever set foot in the studio based in Valencia, except for the bosses of course.

It seems to me a gamble to talk about work-life-balance. You work intensively daily for 8-10 hours with a 1-hour lunch break (when you have the chance to get one), use of mobile phones is forbidden by contract, everyone has always a very long list of to-dos with tight deadlines for the day. There are days in which you are so overworked that you can't even look out of the window for a moment.