Digitas reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,897 total reviews)

Michael Kahn

63% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Digitas has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,897 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Digitas employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Apr 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The only good thing about Digitas is that they have a sweet holiday calendar. You get around 16 days off just on holidays.

Cons

My experience was from the San Francisco office working in the creative department. To work at Digitas you have to have been in the industry for a while because they don't respect or nurture junior or mid-level employees. Their regulations on how management uses performance plans to fire people are pretty bad. This happened to me twice and in one of the instances, the person that was in charge of reviewing my performance weekly for 45 days only did it once and got away with trying to let me go even though he didn't sit down to tell me what was working and what wasn't. Thankfully another creative leader decided to transfer me to his team, I wish this was a one case scenario but the more time I spent there the more I learned about management doing this to other people in an effort to filter out the people they didn't like. I can count about five people I know had to go through the same. Some were transferred to departments they didn't want to be in and some were let go of. There is heavy favoritism amongst leadership and lots of big egos that are only focused on winning awards and having their names be credited. Oh also, my salary was miserable for living in the Bay Area.

1.0
Feb 22, 2018

Beware!

Recommend
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Pros

You may learn a lot.

Cons

-Best practices for advertising are not followed -Onboarding is non existant -People talk crap about each other -No laid out processes -Everyone is stressed all the time - I have seen multiple people crying at their desks -Management has no idea what they are doing and there's way too many cooks in the kitchen -good ideas are ignored until its manager priority -no work life balance

4.0
Jul 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When I started working at DigitasLBi, I really enjoyed working with my team and felt really connected to my VP, she was someone I really looked up to. We were short staffed (two of my 5 team members moved to other accounts to keep the work fresh) but we all worked smart and helped each other. All-in-all, the perks and office itself is unbeatable. There is a coffee bar, plenty of lounge areas and a kitchen on each floor with its own seat capacity. The cubes feel spacious and open with lots of natural light (that is hard to find in NYC). I was pleased with the time off and health benefits. Also, working from home is normal. Anywhere else, it almost feels taboo.

Cons

A new supervisor joined my account a few months after I started and completely changed my experience. This supervisor sat by both me and the other planner on the account (who I worked wonderful with and closely), only utilizing the other planner as a source for questions, feedback and brainstorming. I quickly became the task taker, even though I technically had more experience under my belt than my counterpart. I didn't mind at first and saw it as an opportunity to work harder and prove my knowledge. I noticed he treated the female associate on the account similarly. I hate to say it, but due to the fact that the treatment started immediately, I really think it was a bit of a sexism issue. I had absolutely no respect from this supervisor and the negative treatment and extreme criticism of my work became so apparent that other team members started to notice. I take criticism and feedback well, but I started to develop anxiety due to the micromanagement this supervisor developed over my emails, sentence structure and even ways in which I asked questions (I majored in journalism, this should have been a minor issue). He made me feel unworthy to be on his team. This was addressed with HR when I left, I just hope it was resolved for the associate who stayed. As strong as I am, I became miserable. I could not stand to work there any longer. However, DigitasLBi was a wonderful place to work aside from this negative experience.

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