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

34% 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
1.0
Jun 26, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The health insurance benefits are outstanding and the paid parental leave is generous.

Cons

- the company does not care about you if you are in a non-revenue generating role. - the people team is paid way below market value but force us to price out roles for other teams to be paid at the 50th percentile. My role was $30k below the 50th percentile in the Bay Area to give an example. - Leadership cares more about appeasing their business partners and making themselves look good than actually caring for their own team. - the company states it’s been integrated together as this amazing brand but everyone is still operating under separate P&L’s and no one has a clue how to actually create a unified company. - the core people team is extremely understaffed and asked all the time to take on work of teams who are paid way higher because those teams are at “capacity”. Why is our own Senior Director of People not advocating for us when we push back and say we are at capacity? Instead we must pile on other peoples work and get paid the bare minimum because our mental health and work/life balance is not as important as other teams? Absolutely insane. -little to no learning and development opportunities

2.0
Dec 7, 2023

I give it 5 Years

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- A year ago I would have given it 5/5 stars. -The benefits *were* amazing, but slowly changed (not for the better) -Unlimited PTO -Work from anywhere

Cons

-Highly underpaid -Only get promoted if you're "in" with the leadership -The reward for hard work is...more hard work -A ridiculous amount of micromanaging -Constant layoffs, nobody is "safe". You don't find out someone was let go until you see on LinkedIn or their email bounces. Some communication would be nice.... -Leadership has no idea how to run departments, and has to have their hands in everything so it seems like they're "busy" to try and save their butts from the next round of layoffs. -Very infrequent (if any) merit increases, and they're definitely not anywhere near what inflation is. -Opportunities to move departments, if you want a demotion.

1.0
Sep 12, 2023

Laying off every few weeks without notice

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The benefits were nice (remote work, PTO, etc)

Cons

MediaMonks has had the worst integration/acquisition growing pains. Tough enough as it is, they've been laying employees off SECRETLY - without making any statements or notices to the employees. All we find out is that someone from another team or department got laid off, and everyone is scrambling to fill in and help. They lay off a few people here and there every few days to not cause panic amongst the company or affect the stock price. Meanwhile, we are all NOTICING that heads are blatantly disappearing and names are vanishing on Slack. Pretty sad to see especially since they're laying off a lot of employees that have been with the company for extra long. It appears they're hiring cheaper resources from outside the US or replacing loyal employees with people who will take a lower salary. Management is starting to nod toward a return to office. Most new hires go in at least once a week.

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