Monks reviews

3.3

57% would recommend to a friend

(1,296 total reviews)
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Sir Martin Sorrell | Wesley ter Haar | Bruno Lambertini

31% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Monks has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,296 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Monks 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
3.0
Oct 23, 2024

Current employee

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote work Interesting clients Forefront of innovation projects

Cons

Merger has been poorly managed resulting in no communication to employees and lost of trust in leadership and company direction

4.0
Oct 23, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Monks offers a dynamic, creative workspace that encourages out-of-the-box thinking. Global Exposure, you'd expore to international projects and clients, broadening your creative and professional horizons.

Cons

Work-Life Balance: The usual agency in a working fast-paced environment with tight deadlines can lead to long hours.

1.0
Oct 22, 2024

Dumpster fire

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Monks deliver great creative work (all done by interns and juniors with the guidance of the talented art directors).

Cons

You’ll be judged based on relationships, not work. Some hard workers stay without promotion for years, sometimes in a Junior role, while idiots get a raise and celebration twice a year if they are good friends with the management. Total and utter lack of communication. People learn about layoffs and financial issues from newspapers and press releases, but never from middle and upper management. Middle management act like gods above peasants. Toxic jokes are made. The joke is on them as they can’t do s**t themselves. People who sit here for 10+ years do the worst job but think they are the greatest and tell this to each other in their echo chamber. Tech-wise they can’t do s**t. Technology leads are illiterate, don’t know basic things and are stuck in the past. The tech production issues won’t be communicated to the clients until the very last minute. When s**t happens, the clients feel fooled and often they just stop working with Monks. The vision and strategy are claimed to exist and are heavily promoted, but in reality there’s nothing. Processes simply do not exist anywhere in the company. Environment is extra toxic and clique’y. If you criticize anything the management does, you are doomed. Most of the account people are yes men. Client’s expectations are not managed at all. Most work is heavily undersold and then the production teams need to make up for those f**k ups. Management will always be on the client’s side while leading their best people to burnouts. No one takes responsibility for anything. If there is a problem because of this, decisions won’t be made for months until the client’s or internal escalation and then the worst decision of all possible would be made. People are constantly burned out, mislead, left without guidance and either just enjoy this s**tshow or leave.

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