A Culture Held Together by Overwork and Avoidance & Treats Dysfunction as a Business Model - Anonymous employee Real Chemistry Employee Review

1.0
May 8, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

*Youll quickly learn your personal threshold for dysfunction *Fast Exposure to complex work because there aren’t enough people to do it.

Cons

*Leadership is stacked with directors and group directors while the roles that actually produce work remain chronically understaffed *Resourcing meetings normalize burnout, including leadership loudly laughing when someone is assigned 60+ hours of work as if its an inside joke *Partner agency relationships are combative, turning basic collaboration into constant low-grade conflict. *Some women in leadership roles are highly reactive, overly emotional and take neutral feedback as a personal slight, making simple conversations unnecessarily delicate. They epitomize the stereotype that female leaders have spent years trying to change. *Too many people directing the work and not enough people doing it, creating constant friction and confusion.

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Cons

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Pros

- none. this company is soul suckingly inefficient and they prefer it that way

Cons

- the most dishonest and toxic work environment that I have ever been a part of - the most unqualified management that I have come across (I have worked across numerous agencies - the work is sketchy at best and clients are grossly over billed. Pressuring employees to over bill clients and trying to force inaccurate or incomplete work through the purposely inefficient review processes is common practice at RC - if you do not over bill your clients your managers will begin to micromanage you in a manner that hints at you not doing enough. - Account teams know nothing about media or advertising and make the most uninformed promises to clients and that media activation is constantly on the hook and being blamed for - they hire very little or no men in general. this place is like a toxic middle school atmosphere, it is truly exhausting to be a part of. - managers will routinely insult you in a way you've never been insulted before at work and nothing will be done about it - information is usually gate kept and teams will prevent you from doing your job while management is asking that you contribute more.

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