R/GA reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(768 total reviews)
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54% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

R/GA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 768 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The R/GA 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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768 reviews
1.0
Nov 3, 2014

Horrible Experience

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Pros

Looks good on your resume

Cons

Your boss may be competitive with you. Very hard to get a promotion or a raise. Even if you want to work hard to succeed you can be held back. Manipulative people everywhere.

1.0
Jul 27, 2017

Good Work but Extremely Toxic Work Environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Working with some pretty cool brands and really pushing the work. - You learn a lot while you're there. - Value diversity and inclusion more than any agency I've worked with.

Cons

- Employees throw each other under the bus all the time. It's not their fault - they are just trying to save their jobs, because the office has a high turnover rate and executives are constantly breathing down your neck. This is by far the most toxic part of working there. It doesn't feel like a team working together towards the same goal; everyone is out for themselves in order to save their job. - Company politics will end your job if you aren't 'more involved' with them. - Executives are micro-managers. - Senior management is just sad. They are great at their daily role but very poor at helping junior level employees grow into their role or providing opportunities for growth.

4.0
Nov 10, 2015

Work the politics, do good work, leave when burned out

Anonymous employee
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Pros

R/GA is a place that can really pump up your resume and experience. Work with top brands, smart people, get to do work that's award winning and generally "best in class." Pay (especially strategic / account / tech departments) is better or comparable to other agencies and tech companies. If not the name, the experience at R/GA will open a lot of doors later. If you learn how to navigate the politics / people, you can basically mold your own career in terms of things you work on and how fast you progress. The culture can be really social, if that's what you want it to be.

Cons

Everything good that's been said about working at R/GA comes with a caveat. Nothing good at R/GA happens unless you learn how to navigate the politics, drop the team-centric spirit, and spend a lot time pushing your own brand and agenda. If you don't, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle and feel like you work on bland work with no visibility. Unfortunately, this path to success leads to an "everyone for him/herself" culture, lack of respect between employees and leadership, and roadblocks/frustration because people can't or won't work together as a team.

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