Elephant Reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(64 total reviews)
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Cara DiNorcia

100% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Elephant has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 64 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Elephant 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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64 reviews
1.0
2 Apr 2019

Toxic Environment, awful leadership

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Pros

Some people are really talented and kind, especially mid-level design team. Makes you understand clearly what you don't like and the type of leader you don't want to be.

Cons

Very hard to sum up all that is wrong with this place, but I think the most unforgivable issue is the dishonesty. Lies all the time, to clients, internally and during the interview process. Leadership is absolutely atrocious. They have no idea what they are doing so the solution is to blame other people for their own failures. They take no responsibility and act like kids every time something goes wrong. The toxicity gives me anxiety just thinking about it. There's a very well established blame culture put in place, people point fingers at each other without any shame. I thought I've seen it all in this crazy advertising world, trust me Elephant takes it to a whole other level.

1.0
29 Mar 2019

Not worth it.

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Pros

- talented people - good name for your cv

Cons

- empty promises especially during initial interviews - work hard no reward culture. say goodbye to social life and weekends. reward days are promised but never followed through. - bad leadership. (especially creative lead nyc) he’s an old school masochist who likes to listen to himself talk. a lot. clear favoritism among employees (especially beautiful women). - no career advancement or clear path. mid level management cares if you’re lucky but opportunities to grow are never given. - uninspiring clients and no aspiration to change. - poor attempts to help culture never worked due to overworked employees and terrible clique behaviour. - panic attack’s are common among employees overall: You hardly see a happy employee and I’ve never met anyone who sincerely liked their job there. People high five each other for “getting out”.

1.0
13 Aug 2018

Massive lay offs and leadership lies

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Pros

Free la croix, outdoor patio, lots of alcohol to numb your feelings of working here.

Cons

Basically leadership went on a pretty hefty lying spree after the agency started losing a lot of business, we were told not to worry, that the offices would be collaborating more closely across NY, SF, and LA, and then bam, fired almost the entire creative department in LA. That’s how they run business, clients don’t want to pay for lackluster flashy concept work, the expertise is lacking, compensation is low (there are no bonuses), leadership is literally clueless about how to maintain client happiness and work integrity. Some of the talent was incredible, mainly the hands on design team, unfortunately some of the creative directors were all ex-Huge fluff that had egos as expansive as the unused office space from repeated lay offs, but you got lucky with a few good ones. Pointless now since they were all fired anyways. Basically a completely unstable company run by morons. If you want to grow, learn, make incredible work - honestly go anywhere else at this point. This company is a nightmare and it’s falling apart fast. It’s a real shame.

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