Job Title: Director
Location: New York, NY
Submitted on: 27-Feb-05
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Any given day at Ogilvy was hard work, and every day the culture was
never not
civilized.
Ogilvy was common in long hours, shared with interesting, casual, and
young New
Yorkers.
But uncommon in being really top-heavy with well-suited and ever
present senior
management. Hard work did tend to get rewarded with advancement, but
then you
ended up
competing against too many other hard workers at the top (which may
explain why
so many
Ogilvy alumni choose to leverage their seniority elsewhere). Even more
discouraging were
the limited 401k options, offered by one of the agency's largest
clients,
honoring founder
David Ogilvy's belief in using the client's products. Still, the most
impressive
thing about the
agency was the access you gain to incomparable resources to serve
incomparable
clients. The
most refreshing thing, which I miss most, was that office politics
almost
doesn't exist, despite
the traffic jam at top. The beat is to focus, work hard towards
deadlines that
are constant, and
remain civilized while doing so - just as Ogilvy himself would have
wanted.
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