MMGY Global reviews

Upper management is very concerned with rapid growth and getting the client, but isn't so much concerned with a long-term strategy or getting the job done right once the work comes in. Leadership abandons projects after they are acquired and will only come in to "help" in the case where a mess gets made by an inexperienced account manager or when a discrepancy in the statement of work is found. Egos run amok at MMGY leadership, and I had a small glimpse into how the people running this company behave themselves during business travel and I completely lost respect for a majority of them. If you're in the right group, it seems that you can get promotions, featured articles on the website, credit at company events, no matter what your behavior is like. As a tech worker, I found that leadership had no clue how to sell or utilize technology in advertising. While there are strengths amongst the different channels at the agency (PR, Media, Print), the steam really struggled to sell websites, apps, and other modern platforms to clients. This lack of new business has resulted in layoffs and other questionable personnel changes in the most recent year.

The cons lie primarily within the infrastructure of the management of the entire company including "offices" based in New York, Los Angeles, DC, and Kansas City, where their headquarters lie. (Who has a headquarters in Kansas City? Super cool when they try to slap their culture onto offices in major metropolitan areas with entirely different salaries and practices.) The recent acquisition of NJF, Myriad and Spring O'Brien (and more to come -- aiming for world domination here) has backfired in the worst of ways. No one in upper management or extended partners cares about the well-being of their employees or clients, frankly. They're too busy figuring out how to earn/keep money through budget cuts and empty promises they cannot deliver on with respect to the services they offer. What employees don't see: annual raises (if you were "lucky" enough to get one that was $1,000), bonuses, employee perks, new business commission (Ever heard of that?), or even a "hey - great job on this initiative". What clients Iand prospective clients) don't see: results, someone who has their in best interest in mind. Ironically, the executives send weekly updates praising themselves and patting themselves on the back, explaining mediocrity will not be accepted or tolerated. By the way, did you know, that sometimes people create stick figures of you and your "productivity" / "client capacity"? Meanwhile, employees are locking themselves in the "meditation" room crying to themselves and to the recruiters they desperately seek savior from. You know what's mediocre? Not being able to retain a single employee or client. Also, the fact that the management team has been hosting a plethora of meetings to figure out why morale is so low across all locations, and publicly discussing it, is vile. While saying they'll implement changes that zero people will ever care about, proves that they're so tone deaf and misguided. These implementations include: neglecting anyone who is an AC - AD, still no raises, still no bonuses, weird...in-office happy hours that no one wants to attend, sexual misconduct with employees and clients, and bullying. #resetthemindset If you like being miserable, I definitely recommend applying for one of many positions that are currently open.