Shiny on the outside, exhausting on the inside - Anonymous employee The Brand Guild Employee Review

nice people, lots of fun campaigns to work on

intern pay could have been higher

Exposure to interesting clients if you care about food and beverage. Fair amount of women-led & owned brands. A few genuinely good people there

Co-signing the review before mine, The cliquishness, the culture, the slow education in whether or not you're the right kind of person. I agree with all of it. The leadership here is the most dangerous kind, because it doesn't look dangerous. It looks progressive. It looks inclusive. The branding is values-forward and the language is fluent in everything you're supposed to say right now. Underneath it is white feminism with a comms budget, and it is colder and more exclusionary than anything that announces itself. I would take open bigotry over this, because at least you can see it coming. What happens here hides behind the inclusivity it markets. The racism and the islamophobia I heard, said to me directly and said within earshot, were frankly unbelievable. The cowardice shows up most when someone is on their way out. Firings and offboarding were handled coldly, with no sympathy or consideration. You are an asset until the moment you become a liability, and that turn happens fast and quietly. Unless you are the exact mold they're hiring for, the cookie-cutter version of a comms girl they already have several of, you will spend the job fighting to be read as both a capable employee and a whole person. It took leaving, and working somewhere with a real culture, to understand that the problem was never me.