byzantine corporate behemoth with layers and layers of bureaucracy - Administration WPP Employee Review

3.0
Aug 3, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

-nice offices -can work from home -autonomy--depending on client -WPP/EssenceMediacom sometimes tries to reach out to employees. Try being the word. Usually unsuccessful, but they try. -Everything depends on if you are working for WPP itself, or one of the 100+ holding companies that are much more creative and fun

Cons

-pay inequity -benefits are middle level -Executives are not accessible to the employees -"Window dressing" efforts at DEI -unbelievably hard to get the basic logistics in the office. It's a battle to get conference rooms, IT help is poor, AV in conf rooms is problematic, have to use (juggle?) both Outlook and Google Workspace -maze of competing companies under the WPP umbrella that seemingly compete against each other instead of working together. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing -recently lost a lot of clients and are at a low ebb in the cyclical media landscape. But there is room for a comeback! -risk of burnout as some teams are woefully understaffed -morale at some of the WPP companies is low, but some, like Media Futures Group, try to boost morale -bloated amount of VP's and people with gibberish titles

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5.0
Jun 12, 2025
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

New regime may finally consolidate companies. I had good managers.

Cons

After years of senior management pitches and dismal results the morale gets blase'.

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