Really amazing co-workers, company has lost it's direction though - Anonymous employee Publicis Sapient Employee Review

3.0
Mar 4, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people here have changed my life. So many excellent peers. The people are the main reason most people hang around here

Cons

The company has lost it's way since being acquired by Publicis and now merging with Razorfish. There is a sever lack of work in the Boston office and because of this, many of the great people are leaving. The office is much quieter and more empty and the culture has taken a massive hit because of this. You'll find yourself sitting on "bench" (you're not staffed to a project) for possibly months at a time and it's easy to fall through the cracks because of it. There are initiatives to keep people engaged when they aren't staffed but it's often busy work. There simply isn't work coming into the office and it honestly feels that the company is broken. There is barely any communication about the fact that so many people aren't on projects and there is a constant fake cheerleading attitude within the company to give the impression that things are fine when they simply are not. The company seems to have lost it's vision and values.

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Pros

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Cons

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