Giant Spoon Reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)
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Marc Simons

99% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Giant Spoon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Giant Spoon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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43 reviews
1.0
23 Mar 2020

Sinking ship

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Pros

The people, aside from leadership. Some of the smartest I've worked with, particularly the strategy department.

Cons

Leadership is young (~35 years old across the board) and haven't yet learned how to lead or make good business decisions. They make short-sighted judgements, one of which resulted in the CFO (who was formerly the CFO at Anomaly for 12 years) quitting because leadership wouldn't take financial advice. They've now been laying people off almost monthly for the past year, reducing salaries across the board (and then blaming Coronavirus for these setbacks to not set off alarms with potential investors). They haven’t been doing well for quite a while. There's no clear business strategy for how they want to grow the business, just knee-jerk, grab-and-go mentality of bringing in new accounts for the ultimate goal of selling the company asap. This is the main focus for them. The pay is extremely low compared to other agencies, learning after some research that most people at my level should be paid about $50k more than we were. The accolades in the industry pubs (Ad Age, etc.) are solely a function of the internal PR team pushing hard on getting onto these lists, but it's a mess from the inside. Most people spend their time complaining about the complete lack of process and questionable decision making. If you don't come in at the level you're happy with, there will be little room for growth as I saw with the teams I led. There were rarely promotions or raises.

2.0
21 Mar 2023
Recommend
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Pros

-Benefits are decent -You work on cool accounts

Cons

-Work life balance is actually awful -They encourage you to go to office to build a meaningless rapport with your colleagues -Literal Sweatshop -Leadership doesn’t even care about you or wants to know who you are -Colleagues are smart individuals with creative ideas; however they’re so stand-off ish, stuck up, and super pretentious. -Absolutely fake culture and the office politics is actually baffling. -HR doesn’t care about you nor does your co workers. Prepared to be on edge at all times. Granted, it’s still a fairly small, independent, and new agency. However, there needs to be way more structure (at least when it came to my department I was working in). There are people taking way too much PTO when it came to important dates leaving the rest of the employees to fill in for them. There’s so much gossip and like 80% of the workers here are so pretentious, like wtf? Why are employees here thinking they’re better others because of their fancy titles. Awful office politics and the account managers be so inconsiderate of the employees here; they are a bunch of “yes women”. They take their clients requests without any type of thinking behind if their ideas are realistic or not; it’s like they’re afraid to say no. This place is a literal sweatshop, idk if its just my role but I had to do 10 things at once and of those things isn’t what I’m supposed to be doing. And after all said and done, not even a single thank you or appreciation is given! I’m literally over here doing PA work and the creatives are staring at me not willing to at least give a hand. I was working past normal hours since the offices are split between LA and NYC, which was a big factor to the WLB. Pretty sad. The culture of the company is so fake and I felt like my freedom of speech was revoked. I couldn’t even express my thoughts or opinions without having an insane filter that wouldn’t upset certain people. No one likes each other here, it’s very evident. Overall, be cautious of what you’re getting into. This could all be fixed with better leadership but other than the CCO I am pretty sure they have no idea what they’re doing in running a successful agency. It’s so obvious they’re trying to mimic droga5 but failing bad at it.

2.0
24 June 2019

Never Again

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Pros

Most of the people working here are great, very knowledgable, down to earth, and friendly. Office space is cool and has great snacks and coffee. This is the reason its 2 stars and not 1. Leaving Giant Spoon was one of the happiest days I had since starting to work there.

Cons

The people that are not so great will make your employment a nightmare. Values face time more than productivity. Work life balance does not exist, you are expected to check and respond to your emails after work and during the weekends. Preaches unlimited paid time off, but if you take any days off even for medical reasons it is looked down on. However management will take all the time off they feel like they need. Lack of communication between management and you will often get talked to just for doing the job that a different manager asks of you. Way too much office politics.

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