Big heads don't mean big brains - Anonymous employee Real Chemistry Employee Review

It often seemed frenetic, chaotic and toxic after it began to gain notoriety. Lots of attrition of some of the best talent at all levels. I also never understood how the company made money. Clients rarely paid on time (months without paying) and we often (as some agencies do), cut pricing on services or wrote off our time in order to keep a client. This is an okay practice with limits. If the client continues to abuse this working dynamic, then you have a problem, and I rarely saw a client appreciate all the hard work for less pay and then invest in our work more. Typically, clients get used to this dynamic and lock you into it. "Why buy the cow when you can milk it through the fence for free." I also don't know if leadership was simply unaware, or aloof or too mixed up in their own egos to invest in managing mid-to-entry level employees, but there was absolutely no management plan or thought of how to encourage promotion. Perhaps it was just simply that they didn't want to spend the time to do it. Lastly, it often seemed that all the hard work was done at the entry-to-mid management level (people in their 20s were often pressured to give up 90% of their weekends for poorly managed or last minute projects), while the top management traveled a lot for business meetings, during which they did not scrimp on hotels or dining - even when there was financial strain. The culture was, and I hear still is, extremely lop-sided.