The colleagues are all interesting people. Since everyone is extremely busy, internal colleagues won’t (and don’t have time to) play politics or engage in scheming against you.

1. Terrible pay

2. Long working hours; almost every day involves overtime, and overtime is treated as a matter of course

3. It depends on who your manager is, but in most cases, you won’t be paid for overtime or given compensatory time off

4. Ogilvy offers many courses and training sessions for internal employees, but to put it bluntly, they’re almost all about brainwashing you into thinking that working overtime for Ogilvy is great, that it’s worth continuing, and that the company loves you—so you’ll have great achievements in the future??

The older generation all thinks Ogilvy still has its former prestige, so they take advantage of the fact that everyone wants to put it on their résumé and offer very poor compensation. If you want to try working at an advertising agency, there are many other companies to choose from. They’re just as exhausting, but at least the compensation is somewhat better. If you want to be an underpaid corporate wage slave, be my guest.