WORST PLACE TO WORK! STAY AWAY! - Anonymous employee Dentsu Employee Review

1.0
Mar 2, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Young culture, nice office. People are nice. There is nothing else i can say but i have a 20 word minimum.

Cons

Dentsu does not know how to retain good employees. They will dump work on you if you show you're capable. Forget about raises and bonuses. Forget about work life balance. Dentsu is a culture where managers leave at a decent time and dump work on you. The CFO leaves at 5:30 everyday while everyone else slaves away. Departments are understaffed and the CFO is unwilling to hire more staff or retain the good ones. if you're fresh out of college this would be an exciting place. If you're an established professional STAY AWAY! You'll either be fired for nothing being able to perform or if you can perform, be dumped with more work.

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Cons

Some clients are extremely demanding. Long nights where the clients want to activate something that day or next day and our own internal teams don’t have our back and are also pushing for out of control activations. In my 4 years here, we had one annual salary raise which is not acceptable or fair to everyone. The market rate is way above what we’re getting paid. Dentsu needs to keep up as they’re on the lower end of the pay range and people are leaving because we’re losing hope of ever getting a salary raise when we could job hop and easily get 20% more. Truly disappointing since I have enjoyed my time here. The company has lost major clients and it’s difficult to feel hope for any promotions or raises.

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