4media group Reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(49 total reviews)
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Edward Cyster

70% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

4media group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 49 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The 4media group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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49 reviews
1.0
16 June 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great selection of soft drinks downstairs.

Cons

4media group collects people via the CEO and his combination of relentless charm, empty promises and straight up good salesmanship. Staff are then thrown into an old, sodden gin distillery masquerading as a fit for purpose workspace where the team are left rudderless with an utter lack of leadership, general management or strategic perspective, and try to piece everything together and make it work. It doesn't. 4media group are a transactional, sales-led agency supplier, providing clients lazy and meaningless broadcast PR campaigns. Commercially they hardly turn a profit; operationally they struggle to deliver the work, losing clients regularly and constantly needing to fill the leaky bucket; and culturally they resemble somewhere between a toxic call centre and a morgue (though with less vision, values and purpose) rather than the integrated comms agency melting pot of insight, strategy and creativity they'd have you believe. A complete absence of personal and professional development, minimal benefits beyond a free Monday morning breakfast and an occasionally full biscuit tin, sub standard laptops resembling something from the noughties, horrific internal comms, and no corporate strategy or planning culminating in knee jerk decision making. I could go on. I won't. Rotten To The core

1.0
14 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Central Location, Close to Tube, Plenty of shops and green spaces around

Cons

Hmmm where do I start: if you're looking to work in an office of animatronics that's the place. Very few people there actually know what they're doing - and unfortunately, they're (most) not at management level. That's because this company does not reward smart, knowledgeable people - it rewards flatterers, groupies, lackeys and minions. As long as you go along with the management you'll be fine. That's how most people got promoted there, being in the graces of X and Y. Asked to work overtime most days, terrible holiday allowance, cold-calling atmosphere with ridiculous high targets; lack of talented people in the company really kills-off even the few ones who know their job. Creativity is zero – brainstorms are just occasions for people to talk about what they did in the weekend or the night before; at the end a regurgitated idea used 10x times before will do. There is no interest in new ideas, no encouragement for less outspoken people to contribute, it’s a world of the few and favoured. Massive gap in salaries and again those on little do the most… Have left after a few years there, without actually learning anything useful, is an environment where gossip, lies and backstabbing are fostered and encouraged from the top. If you want a job where you can learn, develop a career, make a difference and most of all feel appreciated for your efforts – then this is NOT that place

1.0
27 June 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Young people are given very senior roles without training

Cons

Inexperienced with a severe lack of integrity. The CEO lures you in with false promises and paints the business as one that is stable and growing. The constant need to drive new business and inability to retain clients is a showcase of how inapt they are at being able to deliver what has been agreed.

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