Somehow I made it out alive - Assistant Account Executive Mullen Employee Review

1.0
24 June 2014
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Pros

Despite the 1.5 years of hell, there were a couple of very interesting and talented people that I was lucky enough to meet (particularly in the creative department). I also learned--in the most traumatic way possible--a lot about project management and juggling multiple responsibilities at once. If you can survive a year in account management at Mullen, every other job will seem like a cake walk. Mullen is also a well known company and has certainly helped open doors for me since escaping.

Cons

I started at Mullen as an Assistant Account Executive 2 weeks after graduating, and boy, was that a rough transition. To say that the senior management was un-supportive is an understatement. After a few weeks of work I was told that I always needed to be the last person on the team to leave. That meant if someone had to work until midnight, I also had to stay in the office until midnight--even if I had absolutely nothing to do. I don't think I ever left before 9pm. And of course there is no overtime and the pay is absolutely terrible. In addition to ridiculous hours, I found people in account management to be incredible petty and cut-throat. There was absolutely no team spirit. Everyone was out for themselves. I knew I needed to quit when one of my supervisors told me that I should never voice my opinions during meetings--even when what I was saying was a valuable contribution.

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Cool atmosphere. Lunch served in-house (not free, but low-cost, taken out of your paycheck).

Cons

The night before they laid me off, I worked till 1 a .m. That part wasn't unusual. Sometimes, they'd tell me to take my phone to bed, so they could call me so I could wake up and do work. Sometimes, I'd be at the elevator to leave and they'd literally run over and tell me not to get on, because there was more work they hadn't anticipated. But I'd like to mention that the day they laid me off, it was December. I'd brought in a donation for the giving tree. They laid me off in mid-December, along with maybe 40 others. If you're looking for a place that works you half to death then lays you off unceremoniously at the holidays, Mullen's your place.

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