Health AAE - Great firm, low pay long hours - Assistant Account Executive Edelman Employee Review

3.0
15 July 2022
Recommend
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Pros

I love the firm and the job. Outside of salary, good benefits

Cons

AAEs get paid very little, especially considering we are in NYC. Your experience is very dependent on your team. I'm expected to work 9-6 and often after 6 as well, but we do get overtime for some of it, but they have to raise rates with inflation because 45k is no longer livable in NYC. Also a ton of emails/notifications that come in late, so even after a late sign-off, you feel obligated to respond.

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5.0
8 June 2026
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Pros

Great clients. Great people to work with.

Cons

Office politics. Silly things that were sold to the client that just did not make sense.

2.0
18 June 2026
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Pros

I worked with some of the brightest and best people in the business. Most of them are no longer with the company. Some good clients, and nice office space.

Cons

Very limited opportunities for growth. During my time they reduced promotions to only once a year, and made many excuses for promoting as few people as possible (despite becoming the first "$1B" agency at that time). Morale was extremely low. People were forced to come into an office with nobody they actually worked with. Common to be passed from manager to manager. At one point I had 6+ managers within a 10-month span.

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