The best place I've ever worked - Director OTX Employee Review

Market Research: not the most glamorous of professions. On the sexy-o-meter of professions, market research comes in just above road construction or grocery check out clerk. Why did I pick this field? I'm a numbers geek who loves to know what people are thinking and why they think the way they do. But OTX has made market research sexy! I'm not sure about all the offices but the London, LA and even Chelsea offices are amazing spaces to work - even rivaling spaces of cool, hip, sexy digital media and dot.com companies. Huge enormous companies with huge enormous budgets can't rival the gym, the zen room, the yoga instructor, the half basketball court and all the fun Corporate management puts forth.

There seems to be a disconnect at times between the vision and culture of the company and the day to day reality within various departments. Some department managers don't take morale as seriously as the Company visionary (CEO) does. If the cool, hip spirit infiltrated its way to the day to day of how the departments are run, work might not get done but OTX would definitely be the most fun place on the planet to work! Managers sometimes commisurate instead of doing what they can to keep their own team member's energy levels high and keep them focused on the bigger picture. Some departments are overworked while others say they are busy but are never in the office a full 8 hours.

The best things about working at OTX: There are some great, fun, intelligent people who work there. The pay is decent to good. There could be an opportunity to work on some really cool projects if issues involving turnaround time and work hours were addressed.

Cons are based on the experience in my department. I can't speak for the company as a whole. * No respect whatsoever for personal time. People work way too many hours. * "Job well done" is never to rarely uttered. Senior management only wants to berate employees for mistakes they've made, rather than tell them when they've done a great job. This is particularly unfortunate given the amount of time employees spend working versus having an actual life. *Senior management generally doesn't respect lower level employees and doesn't behave professionally. *Tendency toward cliquish, "us vs. them" mentality.