Poorly organized environment with weak leadership structure. - Anonymous employee Pure Growth Employee Review

1.0
9 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice wall of plants in the office and great balcony area. Some nice people in the lower and mid-levels that work hard and try to create good work. Close to the subway so you don't have to walk around tourist town too much on your way in and out.

Cons

Their "unique" structure that other reviews have said lead to opportunities also leads to chaos with multiple people giving conflicting feedback, production processes, and ideas on projects. Basically a too many cooks in the kitchen situation where a lot of those cooks think or at least act like they are head chefs. No creative leadership. Account driven teams. Often no direct feedback from creative leadership to creative teams. The work is not very creative. Definitely feels like a consultancies work. They do ask current employees to write positive reviews on glassdoor. You'll notice that a lot of these glowing reviews are written in groups within a few days of each other.

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5.0
2 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Anyone is willing to do whatever it takes to win. Great group of people at every level.

Cons

More structure is needed at times. Sometimes we all take on too many responsibilities to deliver for client deadlines.

1.0
26 June 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- They somehow lucked into hiring some really fantastic, talented people—although most of them have left by now. - Nice office space Truly cannot think of any beyond that . This place is a nightmare. I will note that I personally witnessed (and actually received requests from) HR, asking employees to write positive reviews for Glassdoor. So take the glowing ones with a grain of salt.

Cons

- Extremely unprofessional work environment. CEO thinks that all employees are his own personal assistants and frequently hands down work that is personal in nature. In addition, CEO has severe anger management issues. Known to curse out employees so loudly the entire floor can hear. Has outbursts on set as well, resulting in a very poor reputation with former clients (and shrinking business over time). - Absolutely no mentorship. It's a sink or swim environment, which very little guidance or direction on how to reach the next level in your career. They'll conveniently only bring up all the things you've supposedly done wrong at your annual review, just so they can deny you a raise. - Work/life balance is abysmal due to understaffing and overpromising to clients. Certain members of team work insanely long hours—leaving past 10 PM is not unusual. - Zero organization. Upper management doesn't let people just do their job—they jump in and meddle, change things before delivering to client (with zero heads up to the team), and just generally play all these games that keep you insecure about your job performance, confused about your own projects, and guessing what could possibly be next every day.

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