Codeword Reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(46 total reviews)

Michael McKloskey / Kyle Monson

52% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Codeword has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 46 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Codeword 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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46 reviews
1.0
29 July 2021
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Pros

The only thing I moderately liked was the ability to be hands on at my level. Also there were a handful of genuinely nice people who weren’t fixated on upholding the toxic “agency culture”

Cons

• Very rigid standards, sometimes almost unrealistic. • Office culture did not adapt well to Covid. No boundaries were set to ensure employees weren’t over worked • Lack of management experience/ training. I would receive emails after 8PM noting what I did wrong and critiquing my online etiquette. Management should have more tact and grace to send the emails like that way after work hours. • A very judgemwntal culture if something was done incorrectly, almost made to feel inferior if everything wasn’t perfect • Lies about role. Riddle me this if there’s no project management discipline, then who would that fall on? Accounts is the answer. So you’d essentially being doing a hybrid role with the pay of one. • Lack of boundaries and respect for time if you didn’t have kids or a family. Felt like free-time for single individuals was undervalued

1.0
29 Dec 2023

Ha.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's a real treat if you're game for swallowing the bull the leadership and senior management dish out. Easy to find solid folks to ride it out with though, they make it worth it. Trust you wont find it in the higher ups. Good work/life balance. Great if you want to be remote. Everyone knows how bad it is. Most people are constantly applying to leave at any given time. This is the place to go to gain some experience then get out: a stepping stone.

Cons

It's a pretty toxic gig where the only way up is by trashing your coworkers behind their backs and kissing up to the higher-ups. Favoritism is and always has been off the charts – not even the veterans are safe from it. Sure, you might snag some experience with big-name clients, but watch out for getting stuck or falling for the smoke and mirrors of promises that never pan out. It's basically run by a bunch of grown-up kids and their buddies.

1.0
30 Nov 2022

Toxic Culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Integrating PR and marketing services well for clients

Cons

Codeword has a very toxic culture with the leadership team encouraging backbiting and backstabbing in order to get ahead. Also, the person that leads the overall PR team lacks experience, seems to just be winging it, and even openly talks about leaving and starting a competing firm. Overall this is not a good place to work.

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