The Wrong Kind of Leadership - Anonymous employee Agency 2.0 Employee Review

1.0
5 July 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are great and office is super cool in an awesome location. Really interesting products you get to work on most of the time.

Cons

Too many but it's almost all at the top. The founder, Chris, is super nice but not around much. The President, Jonathan Chaupin, runs the daily operations and his management style is uninspiring, untalented, and deflating. His tactics lowered my team's morale with his abrasive micromanagement style. Went from being about quality campaigns and building something special to maximum quantity to try and beat all the competition. That's okay if we're inspired and empowered, but neither was the case. Most of the awesome team managers have left or been let go recently. I do not recommend working here.

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Agency 2.0 Response
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Agency 2.0 continues to be the leading marketing agency for crowdfunding campaigns and has continued to grow its success through new marketing tools and strategies. Agency 2.0 has just been acknowledged and awarded as one of the fastest growing private companies in America for 2018. Unfortunately, as with many small companies, we had to identify key issues and several personnel that were underperforming. We have standards of conduct and service we must deliver for our top clients. The company is lead by 3 key officers and has been for the past 4 years generating its continued success through leadership and execution. Individuals that work with Agency 2.0 have an amazing opportunity to work with cool new products, entrepreneurs and a very talented team of co-workers. We empower our team by rewarding them with high responsibility, commission, pay raises, 401k, great health benefits, free lunch every Thursday picked by employees, Movie Nights, Bowling Nights, Dodger Game Trips and more. There's a lot of investment into our team to build camaraderie but we do expect return in the form of professionalism, execution and quality service to our clients.

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5.0
26 Jan 2022
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Pros

Agency 2.0's leadership encourages new ideas and is open to new tools that help everyone do their job and reach company goals. Everyone has a voice. Processes are continually reviewed to identify areas for improvement, which makes our jobs easier and smoother with each improvement. The team is small and tight-knit; everyone helps each other and jumps in when needed.

Cons

With the variety of products and clients to work with, there can be some added work in researching and learning about an area employees are unfamiliar with. Of course, this results in a better understanding of a wide range of industries and markets which is never bad.

1.0
28 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The company markets and launches cool products, but has not had any recent success.

Cons

The CEO has a history of poorly treating employees and clients alike. In the last 6-8 months, the company received over half a dozen resignations in all different teams (sales, marketing, design, and senior level also left, COO and CTO gone) mostly after Olenik left the company for 2 months and abandoned major client launches without communicating to anyone in the company. The company no longer had any culture, team interactions, or leadership under Christopher's sole "management" which has lead to the poorest performing campaigns in the history of the company and ultimately why I quit. It's hard to follow a leader when he never shows up to work. At least half a dozen clients fired Olenik in just the last few months I was there and asked for refunds.

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