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Mindshare

Part of WPP

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Save yourself time, and work somewhere else. There’s so many better companies. - Planning Associate Mindshare Employee Review

1.0
13 Jan 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Advice - if you are going to work here, make a paper trail of EVERYTHING. Save your receipts! You may need it! There’s so many better media companies out there.

Cons

Mindshare was my first job out of college and looking back on it, the way they treated associates should be illegal. They don’t care about employees but will give you a “mental health hour” that’ll you’ll never be able to use. My current company requires us to take a mental health DAY each month. Not to mention you will work 10+ hours as an associate and they will try to not pay you for the overtime. I worked 16 hours one day and my AD tried to get me to not write that on my timesheet. Instead, she made me create a deck showing screenshots of pings every hour to prove I was working even though she had my managers word and email time stamps. I had to go to HR to get paid for it four months later. I was locked out of my computer for not changing the password and had to long on everyday at 8a to “make up” hours for two weeks without pay. After speaking to HR about it, they said it shouldn’t have been handled that way. People on my team were dropping like flies and HR continued not to listen to the concerns of the associate.

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5.0
6 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

work life balance is manageable

Cons

leadership continues to change so no clear direction

2.0
20 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Good pay. Hired at just over 100K as a manager with 3 years of experience. Maybe because they planned for me to do 3 roles combined into one. -Nice team and ADs/Director, but this can very account by account. -Lots of exposure to clients and other media brands which can help put WPP into context.

Cons

-Refused to add support to our understaffed team: When I joined my team, I took the responsibilities of 3 members who recently left. Despite begging for help and an associate to split the load with for the duration of my time at MS, I never received one. Now that I have put in my two week notice, they are pulling 3 onshore people and 2 offshore people to take over my responsibilities... -"Leadership" are mystical overlords you will never meet unless you are at the AD level or above. If you have complaints you better hope your director mentions them otherwise leadership will never hear them. -High turnover: I had 2 directors within 3 months, and one get laid off in the span of two years. -Reliance on cheap foreign labor: More and more pushing for using the GDS team. I was a "manager" with no on shore associates. All of the people I "managed" were on a 9 hour time difference and had bosses of their own.

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