Creative Black Hole - Anonymous employee Leo Burnett Employee Review

1.0
Aug 13, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You can easily find a place to park your car.

Cons

Jeez, where do I start! This agency is a walk back in time, not to the golden years of advertising but to the 1930s. It's completely driven by GM (their only client) and don't they let the agency know it! It suffers from a master/servant relationship that agencies have when they service just one client. And because of this, there is a pervasive culture of fear. Because the clients are so conservative and terrified, this makes the agency the exact same way, where client and agency feel one and the same. There are also managers at LBD who no passion for creative and have no interest in ideas. It's all about good meetings.

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At the time, unmatched creative depending on team. Plenty of kind folks, most of which I gather are no longer there. Opportunity to work on bigger briefs, straddle new accounts, etc. based on your level on ambition. Pave your own way.

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Many. Frozen promo cycles even after being formally recommended. No merit increase after year one. CCO at the time ignored internal issues and instead continually offered up the proverbial Kool-Aid. Long hours, like getting teams messages/requests at 10pm for a morning deadline. Plenty of ego and pressure to go around (depending on your team).

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