Monks reviews

3.3

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,288 total reviews)
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Sir Martin Sorrell | Wesley ter Haar | Bruno Lambertini

30% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Monks has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,288 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
4.0
Oct 18, 2021

Great for young creatives

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great Projects. - You work with some of the most talented people in the world. - You can work across various departments, which is great for experience.

Cons

- As leadership you are usually left to fend for yourself without much guidance. - No training offered. - The S4 monster has turned MM into a bit of a factory so you will be churning pitches left right and centre. - If you are not Dutch you get treated differently.

2.0
Feb 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits were unheard of (good), until they changed them this past year. Remote working is nice. They pay you well if you prove yourself and work extremely hard. Day to day colleagues are good humans.

Cons

Understaffing is an understatement. Production is expected to do four times the amount of work and carry the weight of many departments, including account, even though account has three times the amount of people. Monks is constantly getting in their own way and making their own processes harder on themselves. Working 18 hour days is not enough, if things don't get done, there are still fingers pointed and it's an overall toxic environment where nothing is good enough. Leadership constantly contradicts itself. Refuses to teach their employees about AI but pushes the teams to sell it in. Leaderhsip is constantly investing dollars into projects. Production continues to remind account that the agency should be making money. I have not seen a clear vision or mission statement.

1.0
Nov 12, 2025

Shady as hell - Run away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Still some surviving team members that are smart, collaborative and engaged.

Cons

Financially in dire straits. Constant layoffs. Constantly missing projections and disappointing the market. Constant cost cutting measures replace strong team members with cheaper, less effective team members. Leadership is bloated, ineffective, never accepts responsibility for the failing state of the company and takes credit for others' work. And they terminate people "for cause" just to avoid paying severance.

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