Dentsu deserves to be taken to court for exploiting employees - Strategy Dentsu Employee Review

1.0
Feb 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work Big clients Nothing else

Cons

They hired me without a job description. The work over time turned out to be a terrible fit for me because it did not match my experience or skill set. On top of that, there was no work-life balance. Everyone around me was also severely overworked. Processes were terrible and everything was disorganized. All of this resulted in long hours. Senior leadership didn't care. I was then told that I wasn't meeting expectations. I was given a few weeks to meet expectations. At the end of the period, my work was never discussed. I was just laid off without discussing the specifics of my work. To make matters worse, they didn't even pay me any severance framing the whole thing as my fault. When in fact, I absolutely met expectations and even went above and beyond in the final six weeks I was in my role.

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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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