Edelman reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(3,516 total reviews)
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Richard W. Edelman

60% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Edelman has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,516 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Edelman employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.5 stars).

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5.0
Jun 20, 2013

The place for real thinkers

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Recommend
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Pros

- Client base consissts of the best of their industires - Smart colleagues - Great leadership that communicates often and well - Oustanding work - Highly values creative thinking - Diverse employee base is becoming even more so

Cons

- Ver fast-faced, to the point of leaving little room to breathe -

4.0
Jun 16, 2013

Strike a better balance

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People, process, products, places. We have smart people; sound, documented approaches; innovative offerings; and offices in 67 cities throughout the world. There's a lot of opportunity with Edelman.

Cons

Little overhead. It's probably why we are so profitable, but it weighs heavy on PR staff.

3.0
Mar 29, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are amazing. You'll make great friends and feel invited into a very collaborative, friendly environment by your peers. The agency at large is very well-respected, which is a great status to maintain and be part of when working with clients.

Cons

Decisions made by senior leadership are not communicated well to employees. Any communications that are made by leadership are clouded in positivity, lacking detail and decreasing their credibility. Also, the leadership team seems to have become a group in and of themselves, protecting one another and becoming more disconnected from the team at large. For example, senior leadership members were almost all promoted to higher positions during the most recent common review season, while hard-working and deserving midlevel staff were largely overlooked despite similar years of experience and age.

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