Walton Isaacson Reviews

The decisions made at this company benefit two people. The owners. They are all about looking cool. The offfice space, parties, their clothes, the soho house, front row seats, personal assistants. It seems they believe if they can appear a certain way, business will flow in. My entire time at WI was spent watching people be laid off. But the owners always seems above the stress we faced every day that we might be next. Now there's like 5 people left in Chicago. But at least the owners are keeping their big offices, giant houses and sick shoe collections. Way to go.

- Lack of internal processes from the account teams & project management -- Good luck trying to deliver anything on time to the clients. - Lack of high level support for entry & mid level team members -- Walton Isaacson is so focused on hiring "big names" & filling upper management positions. If you're not a director or VP, good luck. You'll be spread thinly across multiple accounts with no support from your director or VP, as they're too busy flying around for "work" or "new business." - Lack of digital/social team -- For a company to have a handful of accounts that deal with digital/social, it makes no sense to have a digital/social team comprised of 3 entry & mid level teams members. There is no leader, despite how hard upper management believe there is. It is no surprise that the clients have moved their digital & social needs to other agencies or taken them in house. - High turnover -- Employees leave every other week because they see that "The Planet's Most Interesting Agency" is far beyond dysfunctional that they jump ship before it sinks. - Most interns are hired because they know the owner. When your office is nearly 80% of spirit accounts, it does not make any sense to hire interns in college that are younger than 21 years old because they can't touch any of the accounts. As a result, your teams are still drowning & now scraping grunt work together to give the under aged interns something to do. - No office supplies! I have never worked in an office where I had to buy own pens, sharpies, highlighters, and post it notes because there was no storage room of office supplies. - Payment to freelancers is slower than using Internet Explorer in 2001. The account and finance teams are so backwards that it takes months for payment to reach freelancers.