Don't waste your time here - Anonymous employee TDW+Co Employee Review

1.0
2 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Co-workers are kind and help you get through the thick of it

Cons

Here's the short version: Run as fast as you can in the other direction. Here's the long version: This place is a complete joke. To say that my experience here was negative would be an gross understatement. No one in management has an actual advertising/marketing background or the vision to lead the company in an innovative direction. The work environment is toxic, the work load is uninspiring and repetitive, and management is completely out of touch and unaware of the necessary structure to build a successful advertising team. It's constantly chaotic and always a scramble to get things done because no one has the foresight to plan in an effective manner. If you want to grow professionally in this field, don't expect to get any guidance from management because they have no idea what they're doing. You're better off watching YouTube clips. But if you want to be overworked, under-appreciated, and underpaid, this is the place for you.

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TDW+Co Response
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No one wants to hear their former team members as having felt that they wasted their time here. But it's important to get candid feedback on their experience. And while it's bluntly direct (and not in a good way), we take these comment seriously and look for ways to improve. To address these comments, we wanted to share the following truths: 1) Our management has an even split of those with advertising (specifically within an agency environment) background, and those with other diverse backgrounds outside of traditional marketing fields. But rather looking at this as a con, we believe that this in fact is a pro, by providing diversity in thought and approach versus the "traditional" agency mindset. 2) We are a close knit agency team. Everyone in the agency has a direct and tangible way of impacting and driving our business. One of our core values is for our team members to create value. Often times, our projects provide a rough guideline from which to operate in order to deliver the campaign results, and we exceed is by having the opportunity to leverage our creativity to make it happen. We don't underestimate the value of structure and process. But will work to continue to improve the balance between being told what to do and value creation. 3) Admittedly, we work in a very fast-paced environment. Those that succeed are able to learn, adapt and drive the results of our campaigns. But throughout, leading with integrity and vision is critical. As a result, we have had an opportunity to revisit our core mission, vision and values - or in other words - our purpose, direction of where we're going and how we behave. We hope that through the communications and sharing of our new M/V/V - we're able to bring more clarity of our expectations with our team members and partners in who we work with.

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