Don't walk...RUN away. - Anonymous employee Pure Growth Employee Review

1.0
26 June 2019
Anonymous employee
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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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5.0
2 Nov 2020
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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.

5.0
15 Dec 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Smart people, collaborative culture that truly works as a cross-functional team. First place I've been at where, first of all, media and creative are under one roof which is really a game changer in terms of all working towards a unified goal and actually having creative / strategy inform media plans. But also we don't work in silos -- account, strategy, production, creative all work together and have direct communication with clients - Opportunities to learn client business beyond traditional advertising - I came here over the advertising world and the politics and PG truly is more of an extended marketing arm for clients. I've learned so much from identifying new distribution channels, to innovation, to identifying optimizations/efficiencies within a company - Lots of room for growth - If you prove yourself, you are greatly rewarded and truly treated like family - Positive momentum - in my past 1.5 years, we've doubled in size, added to client roster and moved to an amazing office! - Great culture - the people actually like eachother! Hang out in office after hours, outings, etc

Cons

- Takes a certain type of person to thrive here. Need to be proactive, resourceful and have no ego. Being a relatively young company, we're still figuring out processes, especially as we get bigger. So people who are successful, are the ones coming forward with solutions and having a voice.

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