Bernstein-Rein Reviews

Those good people could be Jesus, the Dalai Lama and Oprah, and it still wouldn’t make your experience here any less miserable. BR is an agency in name only. And there’s no saving it at this point. Management isn’t only incompetent, it’s delusional, which in my opinion is much worse. The Cleveland Browns have had more wins in the last three years than BR. The agency can’t win a piece of new business, and the worse part is that it seems ok with that. Pitches are lost, and the consensus is we wouldn’t change a thing. When accounts are lost, hardworking people lose their jobs while unbillable ones stay afloat. Logic is a myth here while disgusting misogyny is alive and well. I don’t have time to write a college thesis on all the problems with BR and it’s management, but I could. Google “signs of a toxic work environment” and I promise you this place checks all the boxes. To anyone who is considering working here, I know a job is a job. But this ain’t it. Avoid this place like the plague. You’d be better off getting the plague.

There is a severe and glaring lack of transparency throughout the entire agency. Upper management operates and communicates with the rest of the company through smoke and mirrors and won’t let anyone else in on what’s going on till it’s too late. There is a lot of power and reliance on less than a handful of individuals that are pretty out of touch with the rest of the agency and the industry as a whole. They talk a lot about “family” but will very quickly throw each other under the bus, claiming that it was for the good of the “family”. There also is a ridiculous lack of process and record keeping here. So much relies on “he-said-she-said” and no apartment ever wants to communicate with each other, leading to poorly led projects, redundancies in work, and very little efficiency. Those at the bottom of the totem pole work much more than their paid 40 hours a week and the stress and emotional strain is apparent. Employees are expected to “do whatever is necessary” with little to no thanks or recognition, but a 100% expectancy to do it again.