Monks reviews

3.3

57% would recommend to a friend

(1,300 total reviews)
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Sir Martin Sorrell | Wesley ter Haar | Bruno Lambertini

30% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Monks has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,300 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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3.0
Jun 26, 2023

Burn out factory

Recommend
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Pros

Good portfolio of client - fast paced environment

Cons

Known for bitting more than they can chew and under ressourcing. Can take an extreme toll on its teams.

2.0
Jun 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

If you can ignore the bad thing you can work with and meet some amazing talented people. Might be a better fit for younger people who wanna learn and ramp up their experience level in a short amount of time. To them I would suggest: Get experienced, connect with the good people and get out.

Cons

Pretty much a toxic old-boys club within a larger operation. Favoritism might impact how much you will enjoy your stay, which usually involves long and hectic working days to compensate for the overbaring workload. Projects feel constantly on fire. Overtime was often the norm. There are nice and talented people. But the situation within the company is not allowing them to do their best work. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are used for marketing more than the core values being present in the company. The salary is on the low-end making a lot of good people leave. Covid hit the company hard, because working from home removed the peer pressure and possibility to use distractions and alcohol as shiny trinkets to have people complying with far from optimal conditions. Big projecs and shiny clients are being used to hype the company and give the impression a lot of nice projects will come your way. Leadership is chosen on favoritism, nepotism. Colleagues are cynical. Weekly email from Sir Martin are laughed at because how out of touch they are. And company update meetings receive a lot of confronting questions, while the real sentiment was even worse between colleagues their conversations. Salary and increases are always a topic where people are annoyed about, but for most even decent salaries would probably not fix the issue.

5.0
Jun 23, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The culture of the company is very well based and everyone there is like family. Also, the opportunity you have to learn from their clients is amazing

Cons

Sometimes you can be very happy working with a client and for reasons that are beyond anyone, things can change and you will start working with another client. But honestly, that's a cons in all IT consultancy companies.

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