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3.0

53% would recommend to a friend

(139 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

VSA Partners, LLC has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 139 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The VSA Partners, LLC 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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139 reviews
1.0
Oct 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some really nice people here and I truly love working with some of them. Flexible work from home schedule is really great, especially when interviewing for better positions at better run agencies.

Cons

Stolen from reddit : Step 1: Hire new CEO/President Step 2: New CEO/president progressively lets people go every 6-8 months to cut costs and increase profitability. "Do more with less" Step 3: First year profits vs overhead look awesome - CEO/President gets bonus Step 4: After 2 years, all of the talented people start to leave. They back fill with the cheapest/most junior labor they can find. They still let people go to reduce cost Step 5: They quality/timeliness/etc start to slip and they begin to lose customers - to cover they increase the price of the product/service. Step 6: The dependable 'lifers' who don't stand out but at the utter backbone of the company's operations start to leave and are not backfilled. Step 7: CEO/President is promoted to a new division Step 8: New CEO goes on a hiring spree, and brings organization back to where it was Step 9: They spend 5 years clawing their customers back and updating their offerings Step 10: Hire new CEO/President The yearly and sometimes bi-yearly layoffs are getting old and desperate, much like most of the C Suite.

1.0
Jun 7, 2017

One of the worst agencies I've worked for (1 of 3)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are great at branding. The new CEO is more personable than the last, and that's about it. Free snacks! Creates great work for clients (at the cost of their people's creativity)

Cons

They are getting rid of their branding offering/their most interesting work. Very top heavy (their words, not mine) They also do not know how to manage. The culture is terrible, everyone is afraid of not being billable. They treat their employees like trash and don't care or change when it is brought to their attention. Benefits package is abominable. People spend most days complaining but never actually quit like they say they will.

1.0
Mar 28, 2015

NY office

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice people, nice office, Chicago office seems nice....seems much different than NYC. Twenty word minimum here and I'm struggling a bit....

Cons

Crappy work, frequent EXTREMELY late nights, ie leaving anywhere between 2am-7am. No empathy from the company and upper management about this grinding atmosphere of late nights. Really really corporate environment.... 2 weeks only for vacation plus 5 sick days which they call 3 weeks vacation. Expensive health care, No 401k matching, not competitive salaries. Really not competitive at all in an industry where unlimited vacations, great benefit and great pay are everywhere else. Employees are just bodies in seats who get the work done. There was an effort to fix this sentiment with more outings and events but it always felt very forced and inauthentic. All work is pretty much IBM (mostly print work), and you may or may not get thrown into the IBM lab, which means working at IBM in-house indefinitely, which is not what most people signed up for. And, you have no say over this if they choose to put you there. I would not recommend this place to anyone.

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