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Spark Communications Reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)

Chris Boothe

90% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Spark Communications has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Spark Communications employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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45 reviews
2.0
28 Feb 2014

Growing faster than they can handle.

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Pros

Lots of free perks, gifts, and parties. Youthful, casual, and a very "be yourself" atmosphere.

Cons

The full-time employees are so strapped for time there's no way they have the time to train new people properly. Things are falling through the cracks like crazy and it will only get worse with all the projected expansion and changes. They're relying on temps to do full time work and send out the crucial ad materials in the final step of the process and, training being so poor (there especially), contractors are dropped almost monthly and replaced with yet another brand new face that has to start from scratch. Half a dozen temps have attempted to fill the same job in one department in the last few months and have either walked due to stress or been dropped due to poor training. Over-worked strategy teams consistently miss deadlines, making it harder on every other team that relies on their materials to move forward. I have watched them blame contractors for their mistakes and have them let go. They have recently severed ties to their creative arm due to rampant poor performance on both ends, throwing re-integrating brand new creative team members into an already shaky mix. The "be yourself" attitude sometimes goes too far and leads to a bro-y, sexist atmosphere.

2.0
16 June 2016

Manager

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Pros

The people are fun, and there are lots of vendor perks. The location of the office is near public transportation.

Cons

The agency is the epitome of "over promising and under delivering" in many respects. Whether that is in regard to career prospects, work, happiness, or Spark's promises to clients, do not take them at face value. There are large swaths of unhappy people there, and many groups are suffering from ~75% turnover rates.

2.0
13 Jan 2016

enter at your own risk...

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Pros

strong culture - high profile client base allows you to "play" with large media budgets - great opportunity to learn, but it is intense and the hours are long and arduous - if you work hard, you can go far and move on with invaluable skills and access more high-paying jobs - 1 week off between Christmas and New Year's - perks from working with media vendors (ie. free fancy workout classes, concert tickets, lunches, fancy dinners, Starbuck's runs, etc) - sleek office look with recent design update and changes - strong internship program

Cons

poor, poor compensation - high turnover with unhappy, overworked employees - jaded and negative vibe coming from frusturated employees struggling to stay afloat - reactive instead of proactive environment - the agency is winning so much business but not enough staff to do all the work - recent restructure was communicated and implemented poorly causing confusion and frustration between departments on who owns what - Spark loves hiring fresh out of college so they can pay the lowest salary for "worker bees" to do all the hard work - poor work/life balance with late nights and weekend work - improper staffing so you do the work of 2-3 people - poor and inexperienced management with a lack of professionalism and not much know-how on how to run a team - lots of promises made, but red tape prohibits fast changes - poor review and goal setting process - billing process is a nightmare

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