BLASTmedia Reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

Mendy Werne

95% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

BLASTmedia has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The BLASTmedia 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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38 reviews
2.0
9 July 2017

High Turnover; High Stress

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's a very small company, so you do get to know everyone really well and in the end, you make some really great friends. It's a PR job, so you learn a little about everything rather than a lot about one thing.

Cons

They sell you on the ‘office perks’ such as healthy snacks all the time (which last 3-days and are restocked rarely), a personal trainer (if you can get on the schedule with him), flex hours (but you’re highly monitored and if you don’t work a full 8-hour day, you're ridiculed about it from your colleagues and supervisor), and work from home days (once a month if you don’t have any calls on your calendar). There is a very high employee turnover rate; therefore, those who have been there the longest are cliquey and passive aggressive in order to stay on top. There is an expectation that you should always be working and doing the best you can for your clients, but still staying on track for your hours each month. It wasn’t uncommon for you to check email at 11 PM and see most of the office was still online. I was under the direction of multiple supervisors during my time. My last superior was best at micromanaging her team to the point that she wrote my emails for me to my clients. They have an anonymous email that employees can submit complaints to, but the passive aggressive employees, who have access to the inbox, like to gossip about who sent an email in about what to their friends in the company. The benefits package is mediocre along with the payment structure, bonuses and raises.

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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We're always looking for opportunities to improve and will make sure to take what you've shared into consideration when evaluating our culture and processes.
1.0
22 Sept 2022
Recommend
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Pros

They didn't have any pros in my opinion.

Cons

The management didn't care about you as a human

2.0
16 Dec 2022

Yikes….

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Free Fridays - Educational Opportunity

Cons

Where do I even start? Working here destroyed my mental and physical health. Leadership cares more about the clients than they do their own employees. And don’t get me started on the clients. If you want to start your career in PR, choose an industry outside of start up culture, it’s a dying industry. You’re constantly wondering if you’re going to get laid off next, and the truth is that you just might. If you work here, prepared to be completely ostracized by your peers. This place has a work culture that feels like you’re still stuck in high school. There’s gossiping, backstabbing, bullying… I could go on but I think you get the point. Just spare yourself the anxiety medication and don’t apply here.

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