Pros
Not many. There are tickets to shows and events every once in a while if clients don't claim them. Paychecks I guess are a "pro" but they don't equal the stress you'll experience working there. Oh, there's new carpet.
Cons
For young account people, they will hire you right out of school and expect you to know everything. There is no training, it's trial by fire. This leads to you being belittled by the creatives for not knowing answers to questions. And once you lose their respect, they'll make fun of you behind your back. If you think you can rely on older/more seasoned account people, you can forget about that too. Most are passive aggressive buck pushers who seem to also have no clue what they're doing. For creatives, they will hire you out of town promising the moon and the stars. Then when you arrive you'll end up working on terrible health care print ads for 8 to 10 hours a day. I guess they hire so many creatives from out of town because Louisville creatives simply don't want to work there. Even if you can leave on time, which requires you to work through lunch every day, you'll be told you should stay late to be seen by management. And the biggest problem, leadership. I didn't work there when the owner was in control. I don't know what it used to be like, but it's a mess now. You see posts on Glassdoor about, "progressive company that has 'growth' on the horizon" and "some may not like the new direction." Yes, agencies need to change and evolve. But come on, you know those are agency posts. Who puts "growth" in quotes? They read like an internal robot cobbled them together and they went through four rounds of copy revisions before being published. The "new direction" that needs to happen is the CEO needs to be replaced. He's a yeller, a screamer and I was told by multiple creatives he once gave a profanity-laden speech to the entire creative department, informing them all that they didn't matter. This was followed by him cussing out a respected Creative Director who had been there 20+ years. He leads by fear and if you're not in his inner circle, you can forget about having a career there. The CEO assumes he is a creative and spends too much of the agency's money, time and resources on pitches he can't land. But hey, he was responsible for the agency getting new carpet! His crowning achievement.