Mullen Reviews

Pros

Very talented, driven and creative core of people. Access to some of the most cutting edge technologies and creative talent in the marketing industry.

Cons

A real gulf in awareness of the executive management to what is happening within departments. A stated lack of interest in developing a careers or creating an enviroment of collaboration.

Advice to Senior Management

Make senior management accountable for their lack of leadership and turnover. Address the inconsistencies in management structure and styles. Institute a formal 360 degree review from the President on down and hold everyone to the same scrutiny.

Pros

- The clients and work is new and exciting
- the people are AMAZING (mostly those at the bottom doing the actual work)
- most everyone is willing to work hard to put out great work.

Cons

- no leadership or support from upper management.
- no growth opportunities
- no mentorship or professional growth opportunities
- insanely long hours and heavy work loads
- negative attitudes from upper management, and even weekly lashings from VP level and above
- incredibly unprofessional
- the pay is some of the worst in the business
- very understaffed, especially in the creative and development departments
- blinded by awards, and not by client service

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your people. They do great work for you. You are directly pushing great employees by abusing them, which is why you aren't winning business anymore.

Also, reviews should be once a year, not once every 2-3 years when you beg (for months). That goes for raises as well.

Pros

There are some decent creative teams that work there and overall some friendly people.

Cons

Where do I start:
- Terrible management
- Lack of communication
- Unless you are an SVP, your opinion doesn't matter
- Most of the SVPs and above are so out of the loop of today's marketplace and will never learn to adjust
- The agency is much different than the Boston office and there is NO communication between the two
- Agency is built on fear
- Hours are horrific
- Terrible client relationships. Win a piece of business, work hard on it for 1-2 months, pitch more business and forget about the other business. It is a cycle and the reason they always lose business

Advice to Senior Management

- Treat people with respect
- Provide opportunities to grow, learn and advance
- Not every meeting is life or death
- Settle down and realize that it is advertising
- Build a culture that individuals will be inspired by

Pros

Good people, hard working, mostly an atmosphere of fun and respect

Cons

Understaffed. Too many people stretched too thin.

Pros

-strong business environment
-devoted atmosphere
-very client-based
-professional

Cons

-lack of connection networking for interns

Advice to Senior Management

Strong leadership

Pros

Great people, creative and vibrant environment. It’s definitely a place where you can, if you’re lucky, work on some great client work with smart people. In my department, people work on multiple clients where you get exposed to a lot of different work. It however does take it’s toll where you may be spinning too many plates at once.

Cons

I came to the organization to do great work, be creative, and work with great people. There are some amazing people there at Mullen but the tides are shifting and it is losing a bit of magic. Yes, the company is winning work, but it is coming at the expense of the great people. No work-life balance and to say that it's a boy-club is to put it lightly. Frequent hallway conversations let by senior execs disparage working parents, former employees, and lead people to believe that there is little concern for work life balance. It's sad, really. It used to be a great place to work.

Pros

-ability to explore other departments within the full service ad agency
-active supervisors
-high level of responsibility
-company culture, fun and unique
-barista every morning
-very nice and trendy office, heart of Boston

Cons

-medium size firm
-not as many awards

Advice to Senior Management

The management should leverage the resources members in departments have made to better understand the functioning of the firm i.e. new business has a flow chart of how their department work.

Pros

Growing very fast, a lot of change happening, an exciting place to be at.

Cons

work-life balance isn't great. you tend to work long hours, and sometimes weekends

Pros

Beer Cart Thursdays, bagel Wednesdays, great people. Nothing bad to say except that the upper management seems to be a bit spotty.

Cons

Long hours, and relatively low pay for new positions. Overall it is a great company but they are understaffed a lot.

Pros

Professional environment, smart people, good clients. Can make a contribution

Cons

Needs more staff to get things done.

Advice to Senior Management

The recession is over...staff up.