Digitas Health Reviews

Pros

DH is full of fun, smart, Great people. They are considered thought leaders in the industry. It is a great experience that offers a lot of learning and growth.

Cons

Can be long hours typical of the advertising world, but most teams will offer comp time when employees go above and beyond.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue doing what you are doing! Digits is a great place to work with so many smart and fun people.

Pros

Relaxed environment, decent benefits, convenient location, and friendly coworkers

Cons

Work flow from management was incredibly stochastic, leadership was nonexistent and not competent, vacation structure was a bit strange

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on pleasing the clients you have and bringing in quality talent.

Pros

Interesting place to work, decent environment. Conveniently located in Center City, by City Hall. Decent benefits.

Cons

Compensation is a bit lacking. Time off policy is a bit weird. You are expected to make up for time you take off, if you do not it will affect your billable performance. Very strict confidentiality agreement. When you leave you can't talk about anything you've worked on.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication down the ladder with employee. Better management of company policies and resources.

Pros

Talented people in all departments (creative, strategy, technology, etc)

Cons

Employees aren't always challenged and given opportunities to grow (across departments).

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more opportunities for employees' career growth, improve salary compared to competitors

Pros

Team specific - some teams are great, others are not. If you work with a great team, you're in luck.
Lots of very nice people definitely do work there, but politics can get in the way and supersede competence if you're not more aware of them than usual.
Smart people
Teamwork is possible with the right leader.

Cons

Working competently is sometimes not as important as appearances.
Marketed corporate values are not actually valued - look for the unsaid enforced values.
Teams are overbooked and pressured to perform, mentorship or communication is something the team didn't have time for, and don't seem to allow time to develop.
Don't get sick!
Type A's abound.

Advice to Senior Management

People like doing a good job and being loyal. Help your team leaders support your marketed corporate values instead of letting them run amok and run over their employees. It will increase your bottom line even more, and allow everyone to succeed, not just the power players.

Pros

1. Great brand equity and recognition for next steps in career
2. Big agency structure and exposure in a small agency mind-set

Cons

1. Lack of thought-leadership and limited opportunity to learn about emerging channels
2. Leadership and management can be frustrating for people not inside the circle

Pros

Decent benefits package, "Beer Fridays" and free soda. Smart, talented people everywhere (except in the senior management offices). Sometimes interesting marketing campaign challenges. Opportunities to work on big name accounts.

Cons

Constant fire-drills because of inexperienced account staff or misunderstood client needs. Constant pressure to maintain a high client-billability rate, even when no work was in the pipeline. Poor communications / requirements definitions from the Account teams resulted in production "problems". Lots of agency politics and people being "thrown under the bus". Pressure to make fast decisions and deliver half-baked concepts (or just simply bland ones) quickly. General lack of strategic thinking unless you were working on a proposal.

Advice to Senior Management

Come out of your office occasionally and talk to your employees, you might be surprised how smart they are. Don't just look at finance reports and judge them on their client billing revenue.

Pros

Optimistic attitudes
Great culture and events
Great benefits package compared with other company
Interesting new business prospects within the new business group
Opportunity for advancement in a fair amount of time

Cons

Lower pay in certain capabilities
Long hours too often
Incompetent management
High turnover
Boring work (unless you're excited about pharmaceuticals)

Pros

Strong creative, planning and marketing organization. Great tech/emerging technology practice. Thorough understanding, process and infrastructure geared to pharma. Breadth of experience across channels and media results in large totally integrated marketing assignments. Creative leadership that consistently pushes the bounds of accepted pharma marketing orthodoxy. Deep talent pool, and collegial, professional approach to the work that is mostly free of politics. Generally fun and stimulating. Hours are mostly reasonable. Liberal time-off benefits.

Cons

Agency struggling with scale. Too top-heavy. Senior management presently too hands-on, rather than empowering team leaders. Too many chefs directing and critiquing and not enough cooks cranking out the work.

Advice to Senior Management

The vision and business model looking forward are spot-on. The staffing structure of DH should be addressed, both to make sure that all levels are appropriately empowered, deployed, and compensated; and that energy and effort is not waisted.

Pros

They try to make their employees happy

Cons

Not a place to work if you are creative. Pharma and creative thinking do not mix.

Advice to Senior Management

React to the industry ahead of time. Take the time to design solutions that tackle real problems and really lead the company to the top.