Run away if you can! - Associate Project Manager Dentsu Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

+ Autonomy for certain projects

Cons

+ Lack of training which they blame you for + No diversity in clients + Poor Management and Leadership + Hires diversity to fill a quota instead of training and growing said person + Theres no "family" culture, which sometimes can be a negative but THERES NO CULTURE here, which means you'll work 80 hours and no one will care, they will let you go and no one will care, someone passes away in your family and no one will care, you get into an accident and no one will care. The first question is, did you get the work done. + Account team does not manage the clients expectations, when you try to then there's push back. + NO WORKLIFE BALANCE EVEN REMOTE + No structure of decisions. + No structure with work or any process really + You are only a number here- actually. + The pay is mid - I had to fight for my wage so they decided to give me more work then even the people more senior.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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