The bad GREATLY outweighs the good - Associate Director, Social Media Real Chemistry Employee Review

I had such high hopes when joining Real Chemistry. On the surface, it seemed like a great agency with upward mobility and a chance to work with great clients. Unfortunately, I found culture to be completely toxic. Read the other reviews and there is a common theme. Instead of addressing feedback directly, it often goes around you personally and to your manager or your managers manager. It's all very high school and just gives you intense levels of anxiety because you don't know who you can trust on the account teams. While there is some semblance of work/life balance, there is an unwritten expectation to be on and available well past your normal working hours. Being spread across multiple projects at such low utilization hours makes in next to impossible to do all the client work as promised. Budgeting and scoping seems to be a real issue across multiple accounts and timesheets are rejected constantly asking if you really spent 30 minutes doing a task or asking you to move time to internal/admin time because there isn't enough budget to go towards the work. There is a reason retention is so bad and so many good people are leaving after a year; the upper management doesn't want to invest the time in actually managing their direct reports and helping them grow. In my less than 1.5 years there, I was managed by three different managers after my first two quit.