Terra Reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(33 total reviews)

Cooper Pickett

86% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Terra has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 33 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Terra 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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33 reviews
1.0
4 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Manageable work load - Remote work environment

Cons

- Two faced management: Their management is usually polite, but most of them are two faced. They’ll smile at you and pretend that you’re doing a good job and then they’ll fire you without any warning. If they have an issue with you, they’ll still pretend that everything is okay just to be “polite” and avoid conflict, but then they’ll stab you in the back. Be careful with Remy and Margot. They’ll smile to you all the time as if they’re your friend and you never really know how they feel about you. Horrible work quality: if their client knew how bad some of their work is, they probably wouldn’t have any clients. I have worked for many agencies, but had never worker for an agency that follows 0 best practices and wastes their clients’ money on things that obviously don’t work. They don’t even keep track of their clients’ advertising budgets. Work life balance: I had never been asked to work weekends before working for this agency. They ask some of their employees to work on some tasks on both Saturday and Sunday. - Clicky work environment: Most of their management team is made up of old college buddies. They’re all friends and treat each other differently than they treat other members of the team and the same rules don’t apply to them. Micromanaging: This was hard for me because prior to working for them, I had worked for large agencies managing very large budgets, but they didn’t allow me to make any decisions on my own despite their lack of paid media knowledge. I was hired for a management position, but was treated more like an analyst and was just told what to do. Many times I was asked to do things that I knew would hurt my clients’ performance, but I had to do them because it’s what the CEO wanted. You basically have little input and just have to do what they tell you even if it’s wrong. It’s bad enough that their team has very little paid media experience. Lack of communication: They don’t provide any feedback on how you’re performing. They either tell you that you’re doing well or don’t say anything at all. Completely unreasonable and cold. I was let go for working remotely from another location while they don’t have an office and everyone works remotely. I was fired without any warnings and right before the holidays during a global pandemic. They have unwritten rules and I have read other comments from previous employees that were only employed for a short period. This company seems to be known for hiring and quickly firing their employees without warning. If you have any long term plans like I did of getting a mortgage, STAY AWAY.

1.0
23 Sept 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people, nice wework office. There were a couple of talented designers, but the work was boring so they weren’t really shinning.

Cons

The COO got drunk at a company happy hour and basically implied I was a womanizer my second week on the job. I had barely talked to anyone at that point because I was new, so obviously it was out of left field. He publicly apologized at a company meeting the next day, but he’s a young 32 year old guy with a chip on his shoulder . It left a bad taste in my mouth and ultimately effected my performance. The design is boring mainly because they have boring clients. If you go here thinking you’ll do interesting work you’ll be in for a rude awakening. Nothing portfolio worthy will happen here. I was let go after a month. Half the time I was doing photo research. There was never really a chance for me to show what I can do. I got word others that I felt were doing a great job we’re also let go shortly after me. Be prepared for hired and fired. Plan ahead.

4.0
10 Jan 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- A lot of valuable client-facing experience for entry level people, which does not happen often in bigger agencies. - Close knit company culture. The higher ups are always taking suggestions and trying to innovate on how to foster community in a remote setting. Sure, they could do better, but this is true of every company still operating in a remote setting. - The agency is still establishing its unique position in an over-saturated agency environment, and so there is a whole lot of potential for an employee to find opportunities to flex under-utilized skills, propose new talent offerings, and take a lot of ownership over their clients and projects. - Occasionally, there are periods of a lot of downtime, which Thunderfoot allows employees to spend on personal professional development in the form of taking classes, reading books pertinent to your role, etc. - (both pro and con but leaning pro) You can often find yourself doing tasks and taking on responsibilities that were not outlined in the job description you applied for, which enables great experience and growth opportunities - so long as you advocate for yourself and establish healthy boundaries re: time, work-life balance, and compensation. As a young person who was fresh out of college when joining Thunderfoot, it was a great place re: culture and experience to get one's feet wet in the marketing agency world. In a rag tag setting, you touch upon a diverse array of skills and opportunities that can be spun very positively in future job interviews.

Cons

- Compensation is lacking and not competitive in the industry - Morale isn't high at the moment. Management is certainly trying to rectify this, and it's a difficult problem to solve remotely, but burnout and feeling distant from the community is certainly being felt. - Clientele not the most exciting for people starting out their careers and those seeking to amass a design or writing portfolio of big name clients. - Clientele skew far heavily B2B > B2C and often don't have much experience with using agencies, so working with difficult/demanding personalities isn't uncommon in this company. - "Figure it out as you go" mentality works and makes sense for startups. Thunderfoot is a little too old as a company to have as many non-defined bureaucratic processes or kinks in its machine as it currently does. Don't be put off by the intensely negative reviews. Thunderfoot is a company that is growing and, by nature of figuring out what it wants to be as an agency, does indeed have A LOT of growing pains that is certainly felt in different forms of burnout on the bottom line. All the people who were fired "out of the blue" in reality shouldn't have been so shocked that they were fired (for example, one employee lied about relocating out of the country, another proved to not be as skilled as they led on in their interviews, etc). I mentioned in the pros that Thunderfoot is a great place to get your career started (whether you're fresh out of college or currently undergoing a career pivot). This is very true, but only so long as you don't stay at Thunderfoot for too long, as the new business opportunities that come in year by year are too varied and unreliable to stake consistent personal professional growth on.

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