Pros
The people and location is what makes SmithBucklin, which is the reason for the 1 star. Besides that I do not recommend this company to anyone.
Cons
Entire experience. The environment of SmithBucklin is very stale and not inspiring. The company strives to obtain new business but I think that the companies are better off without SmithBucklin's help. There is no real structure within the departments. A lot of turnover so whatever learning tools that were in place go out the window as soon as upper management is out the door. Upper management from the marketing department, admin team, accounting department & the events department in Washington, DC over burden their employees. They expect to you to manage a 5 to 10 client load with little to no structure or direction which is not effective for the associations they manage. The managers in the events department are not qualified to do their jobs and they are always gossiping about their employees to lower level employees within the department. The managers complain about Senior Management in Chicago and continuously talk down about them during team meetings which lowers the moral and creates confusion of leadership. Pay is extremely low compared to other companies. People say SmithBucklin is a stepping stone for your career because you learn so much within one year but in actuality turnover is so high that you are just picking up the work from people that have quit and management has no other option but to pile it on you.
