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Production staff - Anonymous employee High Five Media Employee Review

2.0
Sep 7, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Everyone is genuinely cool and easy to get along with. • Plenty of free food and snacks. • They put forth an honest effort to make the office fun from time to time. • Good starter job getting your foot in the door of the industry.

Cons

• Production Staff is overworked. • No room to grow. No opportunities for promotions. High turnover rate. • All the males in leadership positions do is have meetings and talk about what they could be doing different, but they barely execute on anything. • If you're a woman, you have no say in anything. Just keep your head down and smile when they ask you something. • Quantity over quality. They value "OK" and "done right now" over "great" and realistic turn around times. • They heavily rely on free student labor. • Sales team has no discernment on the types of clientele they bring in. If they could get a corpse to sign on the dotted line, they would. They are pressured to sell, sell, sell. Often times with little to no information included with the new client. Creates problems down the line for the production staff. • Criminally underpaid. If you agree to a salary, they withhold a couple grand and present it back to you in increments once every six months as "bonuses". Your hourly rate will not reflect the original salary you agreed to.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

Leadership prioritizes personal and professional growth. The teams are passionate, artistic, and determined. High Five helps so many businesses and produces great work, it feels good to be apart of such a cool team.

Cons

This is minor, but some people are salary, others are hourly. We have time off but keeping track of hours each pay period to be sure we get to 80 while still trying to juggle other life tasks (picking up kids from school, dentist, etc.) can get tedious and confusing. Besides that I really have no complaints.

4.0
Sep 26, 2025
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Pros

I was highly impressed with leadership and how they treated me. You may read on here that they are toxic, but that wasn't my experience. I have always been respected. I also had many opportunities to learn lots of new aspects of the job and even pioneer within my own department. Also, the coworkers are truly quality folks. I felt supported on multiple fronts.

Cons

There are cons, but none that should discourage you from being excited to work here or apply! This is a marketing/ad agency so it can get busy. There will be lots of clients and some days are more stressful than others. You can create something and then it gets knocked down later from a client. Rejection and stress are part of this field, so you should understand this if you are interested in working this kind of job. I got paid the average salary and got good benefits. If you are looking for wild tea, I don't have any.

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