So many hopes dashed! - Anonymous employee Publicis Groupe Employee Review

1.0
Nov 13, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some great people who really care about what they are there to do.

Cons

Soul crushing, passive aggressive managers that rule by intimidation. The idea of annual performance reviews is a joke... Never happens, especially if you've gotten good reviews!

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Cons

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1.0
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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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