Mullen NC Reviews

1.7

0% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)

Joe Grimaldi

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1.0
16 Sept 2014

This is a sad, broken agency.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I guess some of the people there are cool. Just not the ones who influence big decisions or company culture or employee wellbeing or good creative. Oh, and they pass out beer every now and then. That's nice. I mean, it's not like it's the best beer, but it does the job, and it's free.

Cons

1. Don't expect to ever advance there. 2. Don't expect any respect. 3. Don't expect any useful creative direction. 4. Don't expect any good clients. 5. Don't expect the support of management. 6. Do expect a stagnant salary. 7. Do expect to see positions with high salaries that do nothing. Ever. 8. Do expect to move to another city when you're ready for a change (which will come soon). 9. Do expect grumbling, cattiness and complaining from employees about the state of things. 10. Do expect to see the people you like leave quickly or be let go.

1.0
26 Oct 2014
Recommend
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Pros

1- Pretty wall art 
 2- ok pay and benefits 
 3- free booze, popcorn, coffee and candy
 4- upon exodus, you'll join a several-hundred strong community of highly-talented and connected mullen refugees

Cons

At least 3 times more turnover than anywhere I've ever worked or even heard of.

 Probably due to:
 Wanton disregard for any semblance of work-life balance
 Obscene workloads with unreasonable timelines 
toxic community, rotten from the top

 Depending on the day's turn-over, it isn't uncommon for mullen to employ more managers than workers, and at least one boss to every bee.

 Even with this boss-glut, reviews were mythologically rare and career advancement was a joke. Roles, goals and responsibilities are either intentionally ambiguous, or blatantly irrelevant. The very few promotions I ever witnessed were either political or people who were married to their bosses spouses' friends or business associates. It certainly appeared that meritorious contributions were counter-productive to a person's career at mullen. Anyone who won new business, received accolades from the industry or commendation from clients was fast-tracked to getting fired or treated so poorly that they quit soon after. I wish this was a subjective, bitter, ex-employee's jaded point-of-view, but I saw it happen again and again, to a dozen or more top-notch employees while simultaneously employees who were losing business and infuriating clients were promoted. It made no sense. If I didn't know how mentally incompetent the 'leadership' at mullen/NC was, I'd swear it was a money-laundering scheme. They seem to be intentionally torpedoing the ship while they scuttle it, capsize it, and run it aground. 

In summary, Barefaced subterfuge and sleazy, drunken-back-room-politics run the show at mullen/NC, literally and figuratively.
 

If you're looking at an open position at mullen/NC, your chair is well-worn, and with good reason It's all appearances, and it's all bait-and-switch. All. Of. It. 

Until IPG axes mullen/NC's entire top-tier, nothing good will come of this place, don't do it

2.0
25 Feb 2016

Take the good with the miserable

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Co-worker Bees– you'll be in the trenches with some of the smartest, passionate and funnest ad people. Big, brand names on your resume (at least when I was there). The "Inner Circle", if you're one of the lucky few that can get into it and maintain your dignity.

Cons

Slave labor hours. Mico-management. The "Inner Circle", once they extract whey they need from you and leave you outside the doggie door, broken, scarred and disillusioned.

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