Crispin Porter Reviews

It's too bad, but the leadership here is completely out of touch. Alex will be the first to tell you how stoked everyone is, how he's super stoked on how things are going, and that we all just need to share the stoke. But his middle-aged colloquialisms are actually a great barometer for the agency's cultural awareness. It's not that leadership doesn't care about the perception of the place, it's just that they try to change it the same way they go about everything, without real any substance. The agency wants the world to think we are doing all the things that modern agencies do, but is way more concerned with perception and outward appearance than actually doing something. We are a shell of who we once were, the smartest people are gone, the bullying culture is in full effect (and HR ignores it and condemns the people who "whine" ) and the people who are still here are looking for their next thing. If you need a less subjective way to evaluate the place, just look at the work. Have you seen the dominos ads? I have, and I have to hide my face every time they come on... which is every 30 seconds. Have you seen the American Airlines work? I haven't. And I work here. If you want to judge the work for yourself, go to CPB's website, you'll see some of our best stuff... from 15 years ago. Not even joking. We can't seem to figure out why clients aren't clamoring to work for an agency who still thinks it's 2004.

Nothing groundbreaking that you haven't already read on here a hundred times already.. - HR is literally useless, (except at getting honest reviews on here taken down) When presented with any information regarding bullying, (someone in the office actually mailed a letter to HR from outside of the building to tell their story of how they felt intimiadated and bullied by a female CD in the office, because they were to afraid to go in person, and they didn't take it seriously at all) they did nothing about it, pretended to care but no action was ever taken. - A female CD who is on such a power trip terrorizes literally everyone in the building but because she has now cozied up to the CCO is somehow protected from her threatening emails, bullying, and gossiping about other creatives in the building, there have been multiple complaints to HR and in her reviews yet nothing is done. -CCO does nothing but play around in his toy box in the lobby and film podcasts no one watches, not a single pitch has even been won since he's been back, probably because he's actually never there just films himself at bike parks and just comes in when its convenient and he's bored. -ECD running the dept has literally closed down two other offices so probably not the best person for the job (but he is a white male and friends with Alex so he won't be going anywhere anytime soon) -There is a president AND a CEO.... no one knows why -Creatives leave and never get backfilled, I swear the only roles that get replaced are Media, how do you run a "creative shop " with no creatives? -New business- Sunbelt rentals?