Edelman reviews

Maternity leave policy is horrible - two weeks paid unless you sign up for ST which is six. Sad because so many women are leaving at this stage of their career. I was also asked to work during my leave and not compensated because I was using vacation days to cover my leave. Horrible.

Where do I even begin? This company is toxic, starting at the very top. The senior leadership team is highly intelligent and have promising vision, but no one is capable of executing that vision and they're extremely manipultive. They have no respect for one another and that trickles down through the ranks. Their behavior and the way people talk to one another within the company is ridiculous and NO ONE should ever have to deal with that. Agency mean girls = school yard bullies. Another huge problem is that they have no corporate structure - I mean they don't even have job descriptions. Without those, no one has a consistent idea of what they should be doing and what their manager expects of them, so it's a royal cluster of people trying but failing because they don't have the information or resources they need to succeed. The company keeps saying they're going to train the staff, but we've been waiting the better part of a year and have no idea when that training is going to come. The work/life balance is non-existent. Both Edelman and Edelman Berland operate in a very knee-jerk, reactionary manner, meaning there's a crisis happening every day (maybe every hour) and people are swirling around and around without being productive. Also, it's an intensely meeting-oriented culture, meaning that the real work doesn't really start until 5pm because you've spent all day in meetings. It's high stress, long hours all the time, and PTO is difficult to actually take - meaning instant-burnout.