Deutsch Reviews

Pros

Amazing HR + company culture + bagel birthdays + orange scooters + grade A staff = happy work place

Cons

Working by Chelsea Market drains funds during lunch.

Pros

- Strong employee pride (great company reputation, great clients, great creative work)
- Produces very strategic work
- Awesome office
- Great (and lavish) company parties

Cons

- Inflated egos battling each other every day
- Sometimes unfair salaries, depending on how long you have been there. You have to complain and threaten to quit to get a decent raise. You may come in at a very high rate, but you stay there for a long, long time...
- Too many creative reviews makes everything take forever.

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your good employees. You know who they are. And fix the over processed nature of creative development. There are too many rounds and reviews. There has to be a way to be more efficient, which will help with work-life balance for everyone.

Pros

Strong at winning new biz, trending in the right direction for digital, people are proud to be a part of Deutsch

Cons

Long hours, not much work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management

Don't lose sight of what made the agency special and unique. The little things like random happy hours in the commons, or having bands play, or acknowledging individual people- that's what makes a big agency feel like it cares.

Pros

The people are great - like family

Cons

Dont understand digital, no process, all talk,

Advice to Senior Management

please reconsider your exec level hires and how they affect the day to day

Pros

Fun culture with younger work force; always pitching new business so there is a lot of opportunity to support and learn the pitch process.

Cons

Long hours; bureaucratic; account team treated as second class citizens in comparison to the creative department; no bonuses but elaborate company parties.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time on internal development and employee growth rather than focusing so heavily on new business. Try to mend the gap between upper management and more junior employees.

Pros

- Good Salary when compared to another peers in the LA area (so I've been told)
- Parties and schmooze with clients
- That is about it.

Cons

Wanna share a cube with 2 (!!!) other employees? Have to bring a doctor notice to get a decent chair? work with more red tape than a downtown DMV? Use computers that are easily 4-5 years old?All while stuck in a decrypt building in the middle of nowhere without no air-conditioned? Deutsch is your place.

Head of departments don't even sit in the same level as the people they "manage". Creative department has a revolving door. Interactive is run by a guy with a print background. You get the picture. I saw things that border the licit: 2 clients paying for the SAME "dedicated" resource.

The place run on fumes, Deutsch does a hard and good work on Pitches, just to forget all about the client the second the contract is signed. Creativity is out and client demands are all that matter.

A truly, horrible place to work.

ps; the goopd reviews are all for the deutsch bank not the agency.

Advice to Senior Management

Be humble. Be human. Change your philosophy on LIFE your greediness and lack of professionalism will be the downfall of Deutsch. Also, stop wearing flip-flops to work, what are you 12?

Pros

Global Company and growth opportunities

Cons

Long hours and high hierarchy

Advice to Senior Management

Increase training

Pros

I loved the culture there--it was definitely a work hard, play harder environment, but sometimes you were so busy that you couldn't even enjoy some of the perks that were available.

Cons

One of the downsides was definitely the lack of having a review process. It seemed like even when they tried to institute a system for this kind of thing, middle level managers seemed to brush it off and didn't with the team for a while.

Advice to Senior Management

Make professional advancement more appealing and available to employees who work hard and deserve it. And please be open to having employees review their superiors--sometimes even though someone is above you in ranking, they need to learn how to be a better manager.

Pros

I was totally skeptical about Deutsch. They seemed to have a very glossy image but not a great deal of substance. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself working alongside amazing people in an incredibly supportive environment. It's definitely a creatively-led shop and focused on constantly evolving and experimenting their point-of-view. One of the biggest surprises about Deutsch/LA is how they've been able to foster a close-knit, small shop tone within what really is a giant agency. I definitely recommend it for anyone that wants to work hard, but feel continually rewarded.

Cons

The only real con is, Deutsch works hard. The attitude is definitely out work, and out think the competition. So 12-14 hour days are normal.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing.

Pros

The people! If it weren't for the excellent relationships I've built here, working late nights would be a lot more painful.
Great work environment/culture - casual, cool downtown office. Everyone works hard and plays harder.
People are encouraged to speak up, provide ideas and not worry about hierarchy.
Definitely get the "we're all in this together" feeling - whether it's good or bad news.
It's hard to imagine working anywhere else.

Cons

Deutsch can be slow on promotions as well as recognizing/rewarding hard work. This is truly the only downside in my opinion.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is doing a great job as far as providing an environment that is both stimulating and comfortable to work in. My advice would be to take a look at the employees who have been there a long time and try to reward them for a job well done, rather than wait for them to leave and come back as a Deutsch "Boomerang".