Lots of potential, but not there yet - Senior Associate Publicis Groupe Employee Review

2.0
May 20, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Best reason to work here? Sad, but it's location: Chelsea Market has great food and frequent celebrity sightings. As far as the people go, most are very nice, just too frazzled and overworked to give anyone the time of day.

Cons

Where to begin? The company is too top heavy, which means the underlings have to work long and hard to make the margins work for Publicis Groupe, USA. Any constructive criticism falls on deaf ears. And the attitude is, "If you don't like it, leave." If the economy were better, the turnover rate here would be off the charts. Most people are biding their time to jump ship for better pay, better hours, and better leadership.

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5.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

unlimited PTO, good team, lots of growth

Cons

Raise and promotion freeze right now

1.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

None besides meeting some good people

Cons

Publicis just posted record revenue and industry-leading margins. The board is using that performance to justify pushing CEO Arthur Sadoun's pay package to roughly $11 million. Meanwhile, plenty of the employees who actually delivered those numbers are looking at NO Merit for the last two years and a pay freeze — let alone reflect their contribution to the results being celebrated in the same earnings report. Record year. Same old story on who gets to share in it Horrible culture DO NOT COME TO WORK HERE!

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