Kaplan Thaler Reviews

Pros

"nice" place to work, with a great work/life balance.

Cons

lack of communication on key issues, such as raise freezes, layoffs, etc.

Advice to Senior Management

ensure there is always a healthy ratio of fresh blood to veterans. also, delegation to managers should be increased.

Pros

- excellent work/life balance
- nice employee perks
- ability to experience / grow in numerous job skill areas
- extremely nice and hard-working people

Cons

- creative teams are stretched thin
- need to grow the creative department with more junior and mid-level teams
- need to hire additional strategic planners with integrated / digital experience as well as more junior & mid-level planners

Advice to Senior Management

providing the creative directors with more staffing support would help bring fresh & new thinking to all campaigns. find new ways to inspire creative thinking - seminars in the digital landscape. involving media teams within the creative development process would be of great benefit.

Pros

-Most everyone gets their own office
-There's not much to complain by way of health and vacation benefits
-Every month, they throw some type of party in the kitchen to acknowledge birthdays (atleast they know you are alive)

Cons

-Coming from larger Agency, I find their entire process from creative development, strategy, to production, quite dysfunctional. As Agencies grow, they need to realize that processes may need to change to adapt to the new landscape. The old model may not necessarily fit the current environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Agency has outgrown ability for all creative to pass through Linda and other Agency founders. Founders should focus on their biggest accounts and recruit other talented senior management to manage the rest. Creative integrity will not be lost and Client relations will improve as Agency has ability to deliver creative more efficiently.

Pros

Friendly, good benefits & time off, nice new office with a good vibe, As a whole the company is well rounded and does not feel as corporate as other comparable agencies.

Cons

Pay is not as high as comparable agencies and growth in certain departments is hard b.c of company size.

Advice to Senior Management

Overall it is very good and helpful when needed. For someone newer to the business more direction and constructive criticism would be helpful

Pros

IF youre a parent and not career oriented or ambitious you can easily slide in and out of here. Innovation and demand for innovation from the Account Management area is low. So that means no pressure. You can come in at 9 and leave by 5 and pretty much spend all day watching youtube, reading blogs, playing videogames, reading a book, working on your own projects and not asingle soul craes or would mind, because they're ding the exact same thing.
So if you want a job where at the end of the day you feel like you accomplished absolutely nothing and you know that tomorrow will be the exact same, then this is the place for you.

Cons

Not a very exciting place, petty, annoying hierachy and senior management.

Advice to Senior Management

LEAVE, hand over company to new directors, give up the name and just let your top creative directors and account directors run their eindividual accounts.