Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Incredibly strong creative and strategy departments, with some of the smartest and interesting people in the biz.

Cons – A little traditional in their thinking, despite their strong investment in digital (production). Creative rules over everyone else, and it's hard to bring anything truly innovative to bear.

Advice to Senior Management – Empower some new blood and experiment in new forms of partnership with clients.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent people and great Creative Directors. The chance to do career work and make great connections.

Cons – Can be a bit political. Sort of stuck between creative botique and large agency.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners full-time for more than a year

Pros – The coworkers I got to know continue to be great friends and resources today.

Cons – You either get it or you don't. I didn't.

Advice to Senior Management – No advice.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Smart people who are also really nice.

Cons – You do mainly TV here.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners full-time for more than a year

Pros – People really have fun working together. In general you play as hard as you work. The office environment is super casual and great work is well rewarded. Booze in the office, lunch trunk visits and summer concert events keep things light. During my time, there was a great office culture with a parody Daily Show created by employees which really helped fuel the company spirit. Holiday party is always off-the-hook.

Cons – Not exactly the most attractive of client lists and the creative department gets away with murder with their laziness because they are the Kings and Queens of the agency. Office politics is a mess like any other company but the egomaniac creatives definitely make it worse. One of the "pros" mentioned regarding a Daily Show was actually not 100% approved by the partners so boo on them for not recognizing the huge amount of office culture it injected to the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Holding creative in higher regard does not breed a strong team ethic. One, it takes every department to succeed and two, it makes your creative teams lazy.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great working with anyone in the company

Cons – crazy car business keeps you on your toes at all times

Advice to Senior Management – Organize and make people do there jobs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Pros – GS&P has enough clout, tenacity and talent to pull off some cool campaigns. But those camps are rare and with the rapid growth at GSP you're more than likely not going to be working on the cool stuff.

The name still carries plenty of weight in the industry and it does attract smart, talented people. Get it, get it on the resume and bail use it (quickly) to move on to healthier and more vital company.

Cons – The senior management has no idea how to scale the success of GSP. What was once a prestige boutique is now a troubled teen struggling (with all the tantrums and drama that implies) with becoming a seasoned adult.

Advice to Senior Management – Quit. Please. Too chiefs with no clue how to do anything short of an over expensive :30.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Pros – Great brands, hard workers, excellent benefits and some of the smartest people in the business. This is a great place to work on high profile creative projects and work with great people.

Cons – With growth the culture is evolving and there is high turnover. Work/life/balance can suffer at times but that's life at any ad agency. Senior partners can be disconnected from the day to day.

Advice to Senior Management – Account management is too flat and there needs to be more opportunity for growth. It's an agency built on great creative but recognition for other departments in the agency falls through the cracks.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Pros – People are very interesting and engaging, the work is creative, work hard, play hard attitude

Cons – probably pays less than other companies in the same category, but because of status, can do so.

Advice to Senior Management – more sharing of information as it comes.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

Pros – Good pay, good clients, and a well-repsected agency within the ad community. Lots of great ads coming out of that place.

Cons – Long hours, disorder, lack of structure, poor sense of community, crowded. People seemed stressed and all the projects I was on had a chicken-with-head cut off order to them, bad deadlines. The building is packed with people because it has grown so large and most people don't seem to know each other that well.

While there are a lot of big name clients, there are also a ton of shitty projects getting assigned–the kind of work that doesn't get showcased anywhere but is just part of getting paid.

Advice to Senior Management – Seriously consider whether growing so big is the best thing for the culture of the place. Rather than create a crappy atmosphere with a churn and burn mentality, try to foster a place where creatives feel like they have an interest in the place and projects and each other.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend