Mullen Reviews

I have been working at Mullen as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Awesome coworkers. The environment is very friendly and fun.

Cons – Can be a bit unstructured depending on the team you're assigned

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Mullen full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great direct management. Great dedicated department.

Cons – Lack of program management tools, old-school ad agency mentality play catching up with digital

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Mullen full-time for more than a year

Pros – creative open space work environment
working with many clients
fast paced
working with smart people
working in downtown
interacting with other departments

Cons – working with clients can be stressful they may want many changes and you need to keep up with their demands
meeting strict deadlines can lead to work long hours

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

I have been working at Mullen full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – You will work with some of the most creative and talented people in the business. Mullen is truly "unbound" in the sense that anything can happen if you're willing to make it happen. You can work on some of the best brands at any level.

Cons – Definitely a churn and burn shop. Employee retention is not a goal and you have to fight for any career development opportunities. Management is haphazardly trained to lead, if at all. This means you can have an awesome experience on one account, but watch it turn 180 when you work on another. New business projects absurd here - everyone runs around like it's the first pitch they've ever seen. Also, entry and mid level folks get screwed with salary - not even close to competitive.

Advice to Senior Management – Realize that your greatest asset is the people who work for you. Train your leaders to train others. Develop protocols and repeatable processes to improve efficiency. Reviews need to happen every 6 months, not every 18.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Mullen

Pros – The people and the collaboration

Cons – Long hours (it's an agency...)

I worked at Mullen as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great staff
Everyone is very friendly
You have the opportunity to learn a lot
Because you work on a whole project with the other interns, you will really bond with them. Some may even become life-long friends.

Cons – The internship was unpaid when I was there.
Even though there is an actual internship program, outside of the intern project, if you want other work to do, you have to be pretty aggressive in asking for it. If you don't keep going back to your supervisor asking "what can I do next?" you may end up sitting around doing nothing for the better part of a day.

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

I have been working at Mullen full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Tons of opportunity with great clients
-Some really good people in management positions
-Upper management is accessible
-Juniors get really good opportunities

Cons – -Lots of work is never looked at and dies
-Often feels account and media driven
-Some really clueless people in management positions
-Long hours/weekends
-Inefficient

Advice to Senior Management – Take new business opportunities to motivate employes. When we pitch something it should be exciting for everyone involved, not something people dread

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Mullen full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people, talent and freedom.

Cons – Focus on money, control and individual success versus winning as a team.

Advice to Senior Management – Look in the mirror.

I worked at Mullen full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Everybody pitches in. There isn't a lot of separation between management and staff and creative talents come from anywhere, any department. Some really great people work here. Free coffee. And you're gonna need it! At least until you start drinking in the office at 3pm to manage your sanity. Great fraternity-like parties if that's why you go to work every day.

Cons – The same trappings that this horrible industry perpetuates. Incredibly long hours and weekend that burn anyone out after a few years. And if you are over 30 with a spouse and kids, don't even try to find a work-life balance. This is about the least family friendly agency I have ever worked for. I STRONGLY recommend that anyone with kids stay away from this place. Management could care less and keeps hiring 22 year olds that look hot in a skirt but know little. Because they are malleable and CHEAP.

Advice to Senior Management – Making people work 70 hrs a week is bull%$#. It's just advertising. And outside the industry NO ONE cares that much about the creative product that any agency puts on a pedestal. So keep collecting your bonus but know the walls are held up by the people who make the agency work. Not the thrill of having a 1 in 5 chance of winning new business without respecting the current client relationships.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Mullen full-time for more than a year

Pros – Mullen wins awards. Mullen craps out mediocre work. Mullen will chew you up & spit you out. Mullen will expose you to smart, irreverent, talented people. It is what you make of it. I definitely took more from Mullen than Mullen got from me. I made a ton of mistakes, but overall left happy.

Cons – I mean, it's high school. There are jocks, nerds, cool kids. Everybody wants to show off & prove they're the smartest person in the room. How you feel about high school is a pretty good indicator of how you'll feel about Mullen. But that's the ad game anyway. Unrelated, if you don't care about NYC/SF/Chicago, W-S is a wonderful sleepy southern city.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep pissing off creatives so they will keep starting their own little boutique shops. Winston is chock full of creative talent thanks to this.

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