Agreed - Help Needed - Anonymous employee MBB Agency Employee Review

2.0
6 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice work/life balance. They work hard to make things fun. A lot of young people keep the energy level high.

Cons

Learn who the favorites are early and never cross them. Management will bend over backwards for certain people even if they are in the wrong. It seems that you can get ahead by complaining a lot if you can bend the right ears. There is a lot of talk about structure and process, but it is rarely followed. They don't seem to want to challenge the clients into better thinking, will often change things to match client request even if it doesn't make sense. Management is also not great at communicating their needs and expectations, you have to go out of your way to ask questions.

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1.0
6 Nov 2016
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Pros

- Free M&Ms and free food.

Cons

- C-suite spends more effort on marketing a false version of itself to be purchased by a larger agency than developing successful business practices or aiding its dying culture. - Employees feel underappreciated, overworked, and afraid. There is no room for growth unless you can become a favorite of leadership. Nepotism is encouraged over achievements or expertise. Leadership has fired a considerable amount of people in the past year without warning and explanation. - No HR: No clear expectations of appropriate conduct, and often there are double standards. Leadership will leave early, come in late, and binge drink with clients. C-Suite will ask invasive questions of staff about their personal lives and offer unsolicited opinions. - Leadership bases all account strategy on gut feelings. Tactics and pitches are determined by what sounds cool. There are no strategists or researchers on staff. Leadership only uses data after-the-fact to give credence to intuition. Employees must navigate around the ignorance to deliver good work. - The culture is mistrustful, fearful, and egotistic. Senior management often makes former employees the butt of jokes. They also speak poorly of clients, C-Suite, and each other in front of junior employees. Junior employees often bully each other because they feel like they can only trust themselves. - Leadership often hires young people, underpay them, overwork them, and then lets them go.

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