Edelman reviews

Compensation average at best

Edelman has become a dumping ground for people who failed in other agencies and just need to prolong their careers for a few years. In the name of being nurturing, Edelman has extremely high tolerance for mediocrity and underperformance. Unless you're actually good at your job. That's the one thing they can't tolerate. If you try to be progressive and passionate at Edelman, there'll be a lot of people who feel threatened by you and start finding fault with you for everything. Before long, it will become a witch hunt and you'll feel like leaving. So many of Edelman's best employees have left to join more progressive agencies and clients. The management's efforts to elevate Edelman's creative capabilities have failed so far, because they've brought in old-school advertising creatives who ideate as if it's 2005. The planners come up with "insights" that are not very insightful at all. In short, Edelman is failing at every department other than traditional PR.