Not Worth The Stress and Burnout - Anonymous employee Tierney Employee Review

1.0
30 Oct 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some, and by some I mean a very small portion, of kind and hard working team members.

Cons

Poor communication and weak leadership. Leaders will argue and shout at the people who work for them. Layoffs/termination/public embarrassment are all used as motivation to squeeze out more work. Timelines are unrealistic, favoritism and cliques create a toxic work environment. Everyone is burnt out from layoffs.

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5.0
30 July 2025
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Pros

Great place to work with friendly approachable staff.

Cons

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2.0
27 Jan 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Mostly young and outgoing staff across deparments, most people are very welcoming - Great office location in Center City - Part of IPG (Also a con) - Will be exposed to a lot of skills and experience due to everyone wearing many hats

Cons

- Poor management driving talented people from the agency. Run by PR-oriented people who do not fully understand other disciplines in the agency. CEO isn't very accessible unless it is about her favorite client. Nepotism in upper-management based on who is friends with CEO and President. - Struggling financially with having layoffs in 2023 including their CFO. Resulted in less hiring and very short-staffed teams. Did not let new hires know this, so they came in to learn why teams were so poorly staffed. - IPG has clamped down on them, resulting in Tierney trying to upsell clients much to their disinterest. - Have three anchor clients but losing one of them would cause a disaster, so agency is always on pins and needles - Lack of new business success, try to seemingly pitch everything even if they are not equipped to serve a prospective client - Burn out is high, you will work much more than 40 hours per week and there is no solve since management refuses to hire more staff

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