Great team and flexibility, but pay and communication is abhorrent - Paid Social Executive Dentsu Employee Review

3.0
4 July 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Flexible and hybrid working (1 day in office expected, would be better totally remote) - Freedom to take medical appointments when needed, trusted to take ownership of own time and workload - Great team on my current account, with a genuine interest in pushing for innovation and driving strong results - Some ability to push back on client requests on short or ridiculous turnarounds -Plenty of annual leave with generous Christmas holiday, birthday day and 3 wellness days and 2 volunteering days

Cons

- Lots of clients leaving, constant reshuffling and quitting of SLT, staff likely to be leaving soon as going downhill - Disgusting handling of bonuses and ASR this year, bonus carrot dangled for no reason. And ASR revoked ONE DAY BEFORE DUE TO BE PUT IN PLACE! Absolutely shameful, no pay rise = pay cut. Salary already not competitive compared to most other jobs on LinkedIn! - Pay not fair across accounts, having worked on more than one account, some people work 100x harder than others and have 100x more work to do. Flat line pay makes us busy accounts feel really undervalued - Siloed in your role, no chance to explore other departments or learn much outside of account - Borderline harassment over the need to complete useless Meta qualifications so the agency looks good

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5.0
2 July 2026
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Pros

Great culture, excellent team, good pay

Cons

becomes stagnant after few years, repetitive tasks

4.0
13 June 2026
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Pros

I’ve been with dentsu for 4 years and I’ve really enjoyed my time. I’ve learned a lot, and worked with very smart people internally and had had interesting clients externally. Making the jump to a big agency was lethal in my professional career. This company offers great flexibility, and awesome PTO. I was able to get promoted, however promotions take a long time.

Cons

Some clients are extremely demanding. Long nights where the clients want to activate something that day or next day and our own internal teams don’t have our back and are also pushing for out of control activations. In my 4 years here, we had one annual salary raise which is not acceptable or fair to everyone. The market rate is way above what we’re getting paid. Dentsu needs to keep up as they’re on the lower end of the pay range and people are leaving because we’re losing hope of ever getting a salary raise when we could job hop and easily get 20% more. Truly disappointing since I have enjoyed my time here. The company has lost major clients and it’s difficult to feel hope for any promotions or raises.

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