CEO is very defensive - Art Director Publicis Groupe Employee Review

3.0
Oct 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, great clients Pretty good compensation for the market Great healthcare

Cons

Very hard to get a promotion or raise RTO policy changes every month or so and the CEO Arthur is very defensive about RTO concerns from non-executive employees. Seems like they make decisions at will and don’t actually confer with day-to-day employees. It’s easy to make decisions and feel confident when you just received a $12 million bonus (while the rest of the company is on a bonus and raise freeze to boot) but for the rest of us it feels very micromanaging and patronizing.

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5.0
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Pros

unlimited PTO, good team, lots of growth

Cons

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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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