WPP reviews

VML hires young college graduates who are willing to work 60-90 hours per week in order to prove themselves in their first job, which in turn is the expectation for all employees. If you think you can be the exception via good time management, think again. This highly stressed/low skilled work force translates into bad work for most clients (minus a select few accounts that only reside in Kansas City). Management is horrible. They have their own long list of responsibilities, and at the bottom is interfacing with the people who report to them. They have no time to train, develop, or mentor their team, and treat people like expendable assets. Turnover here is so high that no one takes the time to introduce themselves or build relationships. Either you, or they, will be gone very soon. On the 3rd and 4th floors (accounting, consulting managers, account/assistant account managers, directors, etc), no one smiles nor laughs, hardly ever. When you walk into the building in the mornings, a frequent encounter in the elevator entails an employee doing paced-breathing exercise to brace for the impact of the day. People are so unhappy and deflated here... the culture is miserable.

New lead of PM has little to no experience managing and creates an environment of separation, judgement, bad mouthing, brown nosing, and insecurity. Many people with more experience have been put in very bad situations due to it, and HR does nothing about it.