Weber Shandwick reviews

Favoritism runs rampant. Horrible managers who treat employees like pawns will routinely get quietly promoted while the promotional cycle is delayed constantly for everyone else. Employees with poor performance reviews will be promoted while those digging deep, delivering for clients, and treating others with respect get passed over because they're not buddy-buddy with the top dogs. There are no standards and no transparency from leaders. The leadership in this office is abysmal.

Normal to OT and work on weekends from time to time since it’s agency life. Experience went downhill after internal management changes and layoffs started. Felt that upper management didn’t appreciate the staff, and there was a lot of lack of transparency around management changes. For a PR agency that prides on open communication, felt that they weren’t “showing up and practising good PR practices” (i.e. being open and reassuring their employees). Upper management and internal politics can be quite tricky at times due to clear favouritism and old mindsets. Bouts of incompetence throughout the firm, mainly rooted in old mindsets and way of doing things that can be challenging to navigate. Development opportunities are quite slow and sometimes blurred and dependent on office politics/favouritism. Pay isn’t the best, could be better.