Alloy Media Reviews

Pros

Good location, Casual Dress Environment, Summer Fridays, Great Holiday Party and a challenging fast paced environment that one can find rewarding (in the means of learning about the professions).

Cons

Too many to mention in detail but this place is highly disorganized, ineffective and overall the worst employer that I've had in my 30 years of experience. Senior Management are awful communicators, don't care about employees and extremely condescending in all interactions.

They don't care about employees or their needs,awful benefits with extremely high deductibles, no perks and NO fun. This was the most miserable work environment I've ever worked in - too much politics and one spent more time trying to figure out "whose good side to stay on" rather than focusing on producing quality work. Stay far far away and don't waste your time. Oh (pay is not great either - as a top performer (4.2 out of a max of 5 points on the review scale) I received a 1.5% increase which was the top of the pool). Find a place and an organization that is worth your time an energy!

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on your employees as you are losing valuable talent each day due to poor leadership across multiple business units.

Pros

- Great location.
- Friendly co-workers
- Great potential to grow if vital changes are made in the future

Cons

- Upper management does not care about its employees
- HR is powerless to intervene on any internal issues within the company
- Year-end employee reviews are based on whether or not you are on your reviewer's good side.
- Information about your personal life will be used against you when necessary
- If you complain about your supervisor/manager to HR, HR will share that information with your supervisor/manager

Advice to Senior Management

Straighten up your act before you lose any more young talents who can take the company to a new level.

Pros

great co-workers, fun subjects for projects

Cons

Terrible management, HR was powerless to change problems with management to contract restrictions and senior management disregard. Certain managers were allows to spend money at will in areas where it was not needed. Yelling at employees was common place if a project did not meet management's vision exactly.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean up you senior management or risk losing a lot of great young talent that could possibly bring your company to new heights.

Pros

Highly energetic, creative and dedicated work atmosphere. Informal but professional. Everyone willing to contribute. Good opportunity for learning since everyone seems to want to interact.

Cons

Everything seems to have to be done "now". Lack of management direction. Pressure to make what appears to be unrealistic revenue goals. Pockets of genius can be overcome by inefficiency and lack of experience. Most middle and upper management not effective in managing company activities.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to translate goals to manageable directives to employees. Learn how to communicate these goals efficiently and with transparency. Hire upper management with necessary skill sets to run the company. There is a lot of promise and talent being wasted or abandoning ship due to mismanagement and bad communication.

Pros

A very flexible work environment with a generally relaxed atmosphere, unique and interesting projects, a cooperative workplace with good benefits.

Cons

Overall Alloy Media + Marketing could improve in the area of internal communication between departments and also general management communications.

Pros

Environment in most cases is fantastic. People are passionate and put in 110% into their work. Company events take the edge off of all the work that needs to be done.

Cons

Middle/Upper Management doesn't seem to understand the needs of most people on the lowest rungs of the totem pole. Really a bummer.

Pros

Career advancement available, annual reviews provided regular feedback, flexible hours if needed.

Cons

Merit pay and bonuses are small. Based on performance, but still rather small. I always had top performance reviews and earned max 4% increases.

Pros

Casual work environment. very diverse mixed culture.

Cons

Poor management. Lack of communication between management and subordinates. Too concerned with just putting out fires rather than dealing with the overall bigger picture. Company looks for scapegoats(finger pointing) rather than taking full on responsibility. Morale is low. Most employees have a voluntary short turn around.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to work on establishing harmony amongst its clients and its employees. Poor treatment of its employees affects work performance.Offer tools that meet the standard of the industry which will both help the employees growth and lead to better services for the client.

Pros

This is a fine bridge from college to New York, but that is all. You will meet some people in the city and get some leads towards your next job.

Cons

Nearly 50% annual turnover is a negative -the person who hired you won't be there for your review, teammates will disappear mid-project, and technology and leadership is awful.

Pros

It was a really fun and young environment so as an intern I did not ever feel out of place.

Cons

Sometimes as an intern there can be a lack of work, just ask for more work and it will usually turn up.