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OBJECTIVE OBSERVATIONS - Nice Building, Awesome Co-Workers, Disappointing Leadership = Need For Change - Anonymous employee Evok Advertising Employee Review

2.0
3 Jan 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful new office, snacks provided, beer tap :) Awesome - talented co-workers and excellent creative leadership. Creative leadership goes above and beyond specific department to provide support to entire agency. Management are collectively really nice people.

Cons

Objective observations - Little room for growth, lack of agency culture, poor training/mentorship, business decisions emotionally driven. Ego-driven leadership instills distrust and instability. Lack of innovation and constantly looking to other agencies for best practices as opposed to developing their own. Pay is below market value creating a feeling of frustration and under appreciation. I have heard top level managment say "the ideal would be that account managers become glorified admin, this way they never want to leave and are okay staying where they are" in all seriousness. Outward statements such as these create an unsettled environment. Most clients are project based and small. Less big picture - more tactical.

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Evok Advertising Response
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Thank you for your review - it's appreciated. Every department head at evok has a training budget, so you feeling that you may not have gotten proper training and you perceived in any way that we wanted AEs in an admin role is very concerning. We will address internally. We, in fact, expect our account managers to be the client when they're here and the agency when they're with the client, but in both cases, the smartest person in the room. Many of our clients are very large and for some, we manage all aspects of their national marketing - perhaps the accounts you worked on were smaller, as you may have been early in your career. Our ceo is very passionate and his passion may be perceived as emotional - we're sorry you didn't agree with our management style. We wish you the very best in all your career pursuits.

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