R/GA reviews

- Too much focus on working late. Management see more hours = harder worker. There's no incentive to work efficiently. - Poor pay rises, lack of any training buget. - The new generation of management very happy for the already established talent to leave in favour of new 'ad people' with attractive portfolios. - There's almost no tech team left. The agency is turning more into a strategy consultancy. Of 200+ people, maybe one or two people left who can actually make things. - Too much focus on winning awards, and often one hollywood project will dominate the credits which disheartens the 98% of the company who didn't work on it. - Too many creative teams.

First, it's a sweatshop. I had never worked that hard in my life. After sleeping in the office for two weeks, I went to my boss to ask for 1 or 2 comp days for the people on the team. The answer was simply "no." Second: titles are so inflated. Someone who was a mediocre art director at one shop went to R/GA to become an Executive Creative Director at R/GA (yes, ECD - they have like 40 ECDs in NY alone). Third, the management layer is so think that if you are joining the company, you are just one of the hundreds of minions that rotate in and out. Fourth, the pay was horrible. Period. Finally, if you work at R/GA, you just accept the fact that you work FOR (not with) Bob Greenberg and to make HIM rich and famous, not you.