Standard Ad Holding Company - Associate Director, Programmatic Dentsu Employee Review

2.0
Jan 16, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, my experience with Dentsu was in line with my experience at other ad agencys. The talent level overall is not as consistent as my time a the big 4 holding companies but overall very similar. Your experience will vary wildly from one account to another.

Cons

Organizationally, they are very messy. The onboarding process is disorganized. In my two years within the company the main employee communications hub transitioned 3 times. There is not a consisent way to work across the company. As with most ad agencies the work life balance is subpar.

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Great culture, excellent team, good pay

Cons

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4.0
Jun 13, 2026
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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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