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The Social Element Reviews

3.2

55% would recommend to a friend

(86 total reviews)
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Ashley Cooksley

50% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

The Social Element has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 86 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Social Element 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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86 reviews
4.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility, generous PTO for full-time employees, teams are generally respectful of PTO and look out for each other, camaraderie on the social team is high and people genuinely get along, which has a very positive impact on the clients as well. A lot of genuinely good people work here and care about the work and each other.

Cons

Raises and promotions move painfully slow, and pay is not accurate based on the distribution of the actual client work. Social team spends just as much time cleaning up the messes of other departments as they do actually working on their projects, but don't have anything close to the salaries of the people making the messes in the first place, and it feels like very little movement happens whenever serious concerns are raised.

4.0
24 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexibility, management and HR exhibit humanity , great peers who have a genuine passion for social media and seeing our clients be successful, benefits are great, fun clients, opportunities to learn

Cons

I think this is like Amazon reviews where people who had bad experiences tend to speak up. I’m really surprised at all the negative reviews. People who don’t like being held accountable seem to go back and blame management. I will tell you the real cons. Very inconsistent or low pay increases, account managers lose clients but don’t seem to be held accountable and roles sacrificed are those of front line workers. They also tend to take credit for work done by the social team. Very little diversity in leadership (a panel of blonde females) but the greater team has a more diverse makeup. Being recently acquired is scary especially given there’s a focus on AI

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Glassdoor has 126 The Social Element reviews submitted anonymously by The Social Element employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if The Social Element is right for you.