Leo Burnett reviews

3.6

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,490 total reviews)

Andrew Swinand

67% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Leo Burnett has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,490 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Leo Burnett employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Feb 18, 2021
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Pros

Umm there's apples in there

Cons

Work/life balance is unheard of. They want you to dedicate your entire life to advertising, and don't understand if you don't particularly want to. I am happier being on food stamps than I was when I worked here.

4.0
Dec 8, 2018

Great place to work for some

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Amazing culture. Work hard, play hard mentality. Casual work environment. Great and smart people to work with. - Great clients. You will absolutely get big names on your resume. - Actively working on issues with diversity in the building. I found Leo to be fairly diverse already but they're openly handling issues with retention rates among PoC. - This is not a boys' club. Leo has also been working actively to make sure the environment is safe for all people of all genders.

Cons

- Will shove you into another role unrelated to your skillset as needed. Would probably be best if they spent that money hiring a good person for the role. For example, a team needs a copywriter and can't find one so they'll either pull another copywriter from another team or just have some random project manager play this role until they find something more permanent. Or maybe this setup will be permanent and each person involved will just have more work dumped on them, who knows! - With the above point, they tend to swamp people with work while others may not have much to do. This, of course, depends on your role. - Most creatives in the building have little idea of how digital content works which made for plenty of headache-inducing back and forth discussions when work could have been done instead. - If you're looking for digital work, LOOK ELSEWHERE. Leo no longer has a digital team. - Some teams are terrible about pushing back against clients. We should not be giving clients everything they want at the drop of a hat just because they ask for it.

1.0
Mar 23, 2018

Full of themselves and not worth the hype!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Not much. Cliquey, mean spirited and not nearly as good as they think they are.

Cons

Toxic culture. JJ does not support women nor represent any interests but her own. It's all about massaging a few precious egos at the expense of the rest of the agency.

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