Imagine an agency as a headless chicken - Vice President Dentsu Employee Review

3.0
Oct 10, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the kindest people you could ever hope to work with. People are genuinely kind and genuinely want to do good work. Also, everyone is incredibly smart; they'll help you raise your game

Cons

1. Organization skills of zero. They're about to go through their second re-org in less than two years. That should tell you how well the last one worked. 2. As transparent as mud, We found out they fired the global CEO in the trades. 3. Totally disconnected from the employees. The only people who see one dentsu are in the ivory tower and don't care what's happening on the ground. 4. They claimed DEI was important, and it was to them, for about 90 seconds. 5. They address calls for pay equity and transparency, but ignoring our questions and obfuscating. Or telling you inflation isn't their problem. 6. Money is first. Clients are first. They don't care how morally corrupt the clients are. They don't care how toxic the accounts are. They just want to get paid.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Great culture, excellent team, good pay

Cons

becomes stagnant after few years, repetitive tasks

4.0
Jun 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I’ve been with dentsu for 4 years and I’ve really enjoyed my time. I’ve learned a lot, and worked with very smart people internally and had had interesting clients externally. Making the jump to a big agency was lethal in my professional career. This company offers great flexibility, and awesome PTO. I was able to get promoted, however promotions take a long time.

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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