AKQA SF HATES CREATIVES - Anonymous employee AKQA Employee Review

Are you a creative? Do you love abuse and neglect? Then this place is for you! Here's what it's like to work as a creative for AKQA here in good ole San Francisco. You'll have the opportunity to work with a group creative lead that has no idea what being a creative is about (project manager, maybe). You'll have a leadership team that only cares about money and is willing to work creatives until they're burned out. You'll have project managers who only want to do the bare minimum, give creatives ridiculous timelines, and then try to blame you if you miss a deadline (especially the on the car account they have). Oh yeah, creatives are then TOLD they can only work a certain number of hours and then when you work over those hours because of the ridiculous schedules, you're basically told to LIE on your timesheets. This is RAMPANT on just about every team. Then you have a fantastic UX lead who has the uncanny ability to suck the life out of anyone she meets — most teams have a complete lack of faith in her because she talks a lot but really isn't saying anything. And then to top it all off, creatives that deserve promotions don't get them, even if you've helped win pitches, etc. It's no wonder clients have been pulling their business out in the past year. They can sense the BS.