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Cashmere Agency Reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(66 total reviews)

Ted Chung

68% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Cashmere Agency has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 66 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cashmere Agency 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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66 reviews
1.0
23 July 2020

AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I really wish I had some to give you.

Cons

The problems here start at the top. Oppressive, disrespectful leadership. Against the advice of a couple of people in my life who warned me not to work here, I traveled down what would be one of the worst and most toxic work environments I've worked in. On the outside the perks seem amazing: working at a multi-cultural agency making a difference, putting your fingerprints on the best multicultural projects in Hollywood, immersing yourself in your own culture at work for a change, working for the managers of Snoop Dogg! You will quickly realize that joy is still a dream deferred. Absolutely no work-life balance, the expectance for you to be on the clock or on-call 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, the countless nights in the office until 1-2am, and the verbal abuse: it all weighs on you. For a company to be given AdAge's 2019 Multicultural Agency of the Year, they can't keep multicultural talent. The amounts of African-American talent that have came and left out of those doors and onto monumental feats are staggering. Some employees cope with the work load with Adderall to complete their tasks. Some have been forced deeper into therapy (but too bad the expensive health benefits don't fully cover it). Some escape to their cars when they have time to take a lunch break and just cry. I beg of you to please just continue your job search. The allure of working in Hollywood will be fleeting and you are honestly better off being broke until something better comes along.

3.0
26 June 2017

Executives need a come to Jesus moment.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Diverse, cool work environment.

Cons

The company's policy towards the staff is basically - hire young grads for pennies, work them till they hate it here and quit to find a new job. Sometimes people quit without even finding a new job. And then there's dysfunction and lack of accountability. Which seems to be so endemic that some people after a certain point stop caring and just start going thru the motions. Departments seem to operate in their own corner and only reluctantly overlap on their projects. And be ready to be interrupted during meetings and hearing an occassinal gross joke from management.

2.0
8 Sept 2020

Nice vision statement, little accountability

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Pros

-A diverse and laid back office environment with fun people (at least on the ground floor). -Some of the directors do have your best interest at heart. -Fun projects

Cons

-Though Cashmere hires diverse talent, many employees leave for other companies due to no room for growth or promotion. The picture also looks different when you look at only the profit-share members. -Directors with a decade of experience are veto'ed by exec level management to the detriment of their departments. -Poor staff resourcing and role boundaries. Murky expectations means you'll constantly be pulled in multiple directions, doing work both above and below your capabilities. -Unsupportive environment—departments are stretched thin, poor staffing and ridiculously short timelines set teams up for failure. "Support" amounts to advice to "Make it dope". No investment in leadership. -High burnout rate. Rewards will be dangled in front of you. Founders give a "We're a family" speech and later address layoffs by saying "Those people got us to where we needed to be, but are no longer the people we need." with no further explanation. Don't believe for a second that your 70 hour work weeks will pay off. Restructuring happens at the whim of execs with no input from the people doing the work. -A New York office opened and closed and that was never addressed. -Roles that recruitment was giving referral bonuses for got laid off within the same year. Again: no plan. -No communication, just lip service from leadership. Town halls are used for lengthy leadership biopics, forget receiving a safe forum for feedback or concrete info about agency priorities.

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