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AKQA

Acquired by WPP

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Great if you are in a preferred discipline - Program Manager AKQA Employee Review

2.0
Dec 15, 2019
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Pros

Best agency for office culture, wellness events and activities. Lots of wonderful people to work with. Good client roster. If you are in UX or strategy or account management, you can go far here. There is a genuine effort for all members of the agency to hash out culture and values. If you are not on an intense project, the work-life balance can be decent, for an agency. Good SF location. Creative output is high quality.

Cons

There is a discipline pecking order. Account and Strategy at at the top. Some chosen design position are also well regarded. The rest are not important to management. Design teams are regularly working hard hours and often for little result. Some of this is just agency life. Leadership team is very political. Often how well connected you are is much more important than the quality of your work. Leadership makes little effort to implement culture and values.

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5.0
Mar 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

solid people, remote work, good work

Cons

company is a little lost at the moment. struggling with profitability

3.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Design and Strategy teams on the west coast in 2021-2023 incredibly smart and strong in their craft. Overall it is hard not to be impressed with the output and some of what the brand can produce

Cons

NY and DC teams were unpleasant. Competitive fearful vibe compared to other creative and tech industries I have been in. My guess is because everything is based on what accounts and projects they can capture and during this time tech accounts were pulling out of further business as their markets slowed. WPP (the parent company) began lay offs and shuttered whole agencies exasperating this.

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