Environment where no one can thrive - Anonymous employee Flywheel Digital Employee Review

1.0
May 6, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Previous pros would be: work from home and flexible work hours (leadership stated 3 months ago there would be no return to office policy and then last week rolled out a return to office policy effective in less than a month) and a social culture (huge layoffs and the remaining good people either quitting or planning to quit has shifted the social element of work a good bit)

Cons

Leadership cannot maintain goals or values consistently for more than a month. Leadership cannot make promises with things related to work/life balance, salary, titles/promotions, company direction, organization structure etc. and actually keep them. Leadership has consistently lacked all communication skills and any transparency. Salary increases across the company are expected to fall below inflation and have taken several months to actually hit employee paychecks (as of posting this, they still haven't) while the company was able to 1. pay for most members of leadership to travel US, Europe, and Asia 2. pay for a full page print ad campaign in the NY Times (we're an online marketing company?) 3. pay for a a custom beer in our company name at a brewery local to one singular office. Benefits like medical, 401k, and stock options has been an absolute nightmare. HR struggles to do the bare minimum of their job and are terrible at communicating. From the top down, this people management team lacks all accountability. I would not recommend this company as a place to work at this time.

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5.0
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Pros

Training opportunities, travel, large clients with large budgets

Cons

Leadership struggled with communication at times

1.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

There are still great, intelligent people here that you can learn from, but they are dwindling as the mass exodus continues.

Cons

Benefits: Omnicom has been slashing benefits left and right since the acquisition, effectively giving all legacy Flywheel employees a paycut. Employee healthcare costs went up 100%, employer HSA contributions got cut by 50%, unlimited PTO revoked, and 401K matching is no longer guaranteed and comes 7-8 months after the end of the year (if it even comes at all). Year-end compensation and performance reviews always get pushed back 4-6 months. Flywheel use to be an exciting and fun company to work for. That's all gone and now all that remains is an unrelenting workload that never ceases no matter how many nights and weekends you work. I wouldn't take a job here unless you're desperate.

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