Publicis Reviews

Pros

People who work here are awesome. Great team spirit depending on your department and account.
Incredibly satisfying when you do make a difference.
People here are in it to win it.

Cons

Large companies are hard to change from the inside.
Making a difference here requires A LOT of hard work.
Depending on your account, opinions will greatly vary.

Advice to Senior Management

Give the young thought leaders more chances to prove themselves.
Big organizations are hard enough to navigate through on their own.

Pros

Good people, good salary + good benefits

Cons

Contract employment, contract ended earlier then was originally supposed to end

Advice to Senior Management

Training was a little intense, maybe consider schedule training exams with a little more time in between in exams

Pros

The place is fun to work that it has a decent magazine library, kitchen with coffee machine, resting area and lunch area. The location is convenient. Co-workers are friendly and we go out for lunch together all the time.

Cons

There're stress, of course, that we have deadline to meet and most people tend to stay very late for work.

Advice to Senior Management

It will be easier for me to work with the team if there's any clear work schedule or project progresses that's easy for the team to access.

Pros

Great access to top advertising clients in the US (Purina, Scion, Allstate, Bank of America)
Amazing benefits (Publicis benefits are second to none)
Top rewarded mobile agency
Great launchpad for career in advertising/mobile industry (literally having this experience is as good as gold on a resume)
People are very cool within the company

Cons

Management more concerned about revenue than employees
Worst parts of working in start-up and large company combined: lack of resources (employees, technology) but revenue demands of a public company - not allowed to hire ahead of the curve - must first show revenue before hiring. No equity in company, but all the head-aches of a start-up (no process, career path)
Pricing of services are too high to compete with smaller/more nimble start-ups
Lack of importance put on mobile within greater Publicis/Vivaki groupe, which hampers growth of Phonevalley

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your people more than your bottom line
Hire more resources in the US
Create career paths for employees
Work more efficiently vs. longer hours
Create incentives for employees to stay within the walls of Publicis vs. going to start-ups that have more upside

Pros

Cool office. Nice people. They have some decent clients and do some decent work. Its a fun place to work. A lot of folks have been there and gone on to better agencies so that is promising.

Cons

They are very behind on integrated and digital. They were known as the top agency for print in the Publicis North America network. But print is dying.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more integrated and interactive folks. It will help Publicis keep up with all the other traditional agencies that are all behind.

Pros

great benefits, work environment and place for growth.

Cons

it's a large company and not personal at times.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the people!

Pros

Its a great place to work as an starting level, great atmosphere, you can almost smell the graphic design just by seeing the people work, its a very creative place, and the networking its awesome.

Cons

The pay mostly, from my point of view, the salaries amongs the grpahic designers werent really good. Maybe in higher positions was better.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work, always bring new ideas or ways to promote the creativity in the place, and keep doing the good job of standing up for the designers in front of awful clients.

Pros

Upward mobility, opportunity for horizontal movement, pay is competitive compared to other agencies out there, great people to work with

Cons

need to share more info with lower level employees and also review employee performance more often

Advice to Senior Management

Upward mobility, opportunity for horizontal movement, pay is competitive compared to other agencies out there, great people to work with

Pros

There are some good accounts to work on at Publicis, and the Christmas parties were fantastic. Like many ad agencies, there are fun perks like soda, snacks, pool and ping pong tables, and dogs in the office, but these perks are lost in crazy work loads and not enough to retain top talent.

Cons

Crazy work load expectations and a lack of consistent promotion. There is also a lack of assigning projects and work based on merit and talent.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership should see the high turnover as a sign to take employee morale more seriously and make lasting changes, not just apply band-aids in the form of "perks" such as parties and video games and dogs in the office.

Pros

1. A lot of hands on experience
2. Great freedom of what you can do
3. Friendly working environment
4. Well known public company

Cons

1. Salary (since I was an intern)
2. Coworker sometimes would try to hide their knowledge of you for job security.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop firing people and bringing in outsource group from India. quit being cheap and hire people that are motivated to grow with the company.