Silver Agency Reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(29 total reviews)

36% positive business outlook

Silver Agency has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 29 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silver Agency 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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29 reviews
1.0
8 June 2019

Horrible Culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The office is kind of cool and most of the staff are nice.

Cons

The company has a horrible culture - political and back stabbing! It's just out to make as much money as possible and has no interest in its staff. The staff churn rate is super high - it's basically a revolving door. Senior management are self centred and only interested in making money and getting ahead of each other in their careers at any cost! It is very political and you will only get on in the company if you are a 'YES' person. There's no point in having your own creative thoughts and ideas as they never get used. The owner is arrogant with a big ego and wants to be liked by everyone, by trying to be overly friendly. Everyone can see through this and knows it's just a facade - all friendly one minute and then slating people the next! Very self centred, likes the sound of their own voice and is so fake! The current CEO sits behind closed doors, only talks to senior people and openly admits to not wanting to read reports, therefore a lot of time is wasted in pointless meetings where nothing get implemented. They are rarely in the office and are simply just not a good leader. The leadership to the creative team is really poor, with little direction and no real creative input or ideas.

1.0
9 Feb 2018

Smoke and mirrors

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The office environment and equipment is really good. Christmas trips away

Cons

As the review that gives 5 stars shows (probably written by management) there is a complete disparity between management and staff. No one that voluntarily leaves and says they missed it would have left the company if it was that good. There are the top level management team that run the place like a sweat shop and do not consult staff on things. I saw many staff join and get fired in quick succession as they would try to influence change but that was not wanted by management. So they got rid. There's a lack of career progression and opportunities unless you become a 'yes' person. Something that I wasn't ready to do so left.

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Silver Agency Response
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We are pleased that you enjoyed the working environment at Silver and the incentive trips. However, disappointed that overall working for Silver didn't work for you. We really appreciate you taking the time to provide feedback. We pride ourselves on an open and honest working environment and one that ensures all can have a voice and realise their potential. Wishing you the best of luck for your future career.
1.0
15 June 2021

Don't believe the fake reviews!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Virtually everyone who isn't in upper management are such genuinely nice people, and some of my colleague have now become very good friends of mine. The company likes to treat its employees to gifts, which is nice if you like that. Might get to leave early every now and then. Quite accommodating during lockdown with equipment and moral boosting stuff.

Cons

If you're not a person that says YES to everything then you're not going to be a good fit here. Overtime is rampant in the organisation and you get no overtime pay, you're just expected to it it. Salaries are quite pathetic unless you come in at Director level then you're making stupid money. Also for everyone who isn't a director, you might get a pay raise but it wouldn't even surpass that of inflation, so basically the longer you stay here the worse off you are financially. They no longer have their quirky office, which was always meant to be a 'plus' about the company. Now they're just renting a room in a co-working style type business which is quite boring. Pretty much all the 4-5 star reviews on here are fake, either done by upper management or by asking brand new employees to do a review, before they've had the chance to really see Silver for what it is. Certain members of upper management have acted VERY inappropriately to lower level employees and then abused their position/level within the company to a point where if said victim employee wanted to blow the whistle on anything, it would get pushed under the carpet. The Creative team have been ground to a paste in the past 1-2 years from the workload that has been given to them. Even when they have asked for people to be hired into the team, upper management dragged their feet for so long. Yet somehow they can just make jobs out of thin air for their 'friends', and pay them stupidly high salaries. We've had about 2-3 directors/advisors (whatever their titles are), hired in the past year and for the life of me I still don't know what they do for the company, apart from give us more work!

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