- 90% of Managers have never managed anywhere else so they lack leadership skills needed to be a good manager.
- Hire a lot of entry level people and hire within in which can be good, but then anyone who is hired not entry level is at a HUGE disadvantage and the team will lack skills diversification.
- Pay is really bad compared to other similar positions. After leaving, I was able to get a total compensation 30% better than at Unified.
- Benefits suck. Being owned by a super old company (iHeart Media) the benefits are also old world.
- No physical office, no chance or returning to the office any time soon.
- Management doesn't communicate with each other. Problems are constantly talked about in 1:1s and they say "I will circle back" but it just feels like buzz words being thrown around and no real solutions are put in place.
- Teams are super over or under worked. Management has no idea the bandwith of individual people. Some people have 3+ hours a day with no real work, others are working extra hours and are over worked on too many accounts.
- No new accounts have been acquired since being bought by IHM. All new clients are accounts brought over from IHM so its not net new revenue.
- All clients are other larger agencies (TeamOne, Saatchi & Saatchi, Merkley & Partners, Hearts & Science, etc). Unified is just the social outsource tool for those larger agencies so Unified has no actual say in strategy or planning.
- Weird career momentum. Managed Services has a tiered team (Campaign/Account Coordinatior --> Campaign/Account Associate --> Campaign/Account Manager --> Senior Campaign Manager/Account Strategy Manager). From start to finish, about 2.5 years trajectory but only make MAX 25% pay increase from start to finish.
- You are given more responsibilities before promoted/given raise, usually for at least 3 months or more.
