Richards Group Reviews

Pros

Great Employees! Fun to work with.

Cons

You can get overlooked if you don't politic regularly.

Pros

Profit Sharing, Bonuses, Nice People, Free Medical for Employee

Cons

Strict hours, No overtime pay, no career advancement opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

Make structure less flat, give regular reviews, no more 8:30 in time, allow working from home

Pros

Large variety of well-known brands to work on.

Great if you're looking to slow down you're career and are looking for a place with low energy.

Good retirement plan if you intend to stay at company for at least 6yrs.

Everyone gets an MacBook (but not Creative Suite)

Cons

Mandatory 8:30am check-in, daily. Time sheets due everyday, or $7 is deducted from your paycheck. Bobble heads of Stan Richards peering from every desk. Boring, corporate work environment. Lack of commendatory among departments and account teams. No opertunites for training or employee development. Big Brother-esque atmosphere. Culture of isolation. Lack of innovation or awareness of new marketing tactics. Lots of older people. Office is dark. Parking is mostly on the street, with the hot Texas sun beating down on your car. Lack of creative culture both at the agency and in the city of Dallas. No on-boarding of new hires. Sink or swim mentality. It's hard to know what you're expected to accomplish on a daily basis.

Advice to Senior Management

Upgrade the office work space and bring in more people from outside of Texas to add energy to the environment and work. Support new hires with training and mentorship.

Pros

Learn quickly, interesting clients, constant self improvement

Cons

Like a shark tank, competitive, cut throat

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

The people were nice and friendly. You got a lot of perks from working there by getting free tickets to games.

Cons

they work your butt off, you work about 60 hours a week and don't get compensated for it. You have to work a lot.

Advice to Senior Management

hire more people and don't work your current staff so much as to where they don't have a proper work and life balance

Pros

Well known and respected agency, great long term benefits if you're planning to stay a while, few egos.

Cons

Very structured and corporate environment for an ad agency. Depressing really, there is no inspiration to be creative. Very traditional minded approach to marketing, they know what they're doing and they do it well, but they're far from innovators. They're probably 5-10 years behind on current marketing tactics.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop going after every account possible and instead focus on developing your people and a great, creative culture. Bigger is not better. Also, work to be less isolated from the industry.

Pros

People early in their career receive training and guidance. There's a respect for everyone's ideas regardless of their "title"

Cons

It's a type-A atmosphere. If you are a perfectionist, you'll do fine. It's strange that there are no titles

Pros

Nice people
Laid back atmosphere
Great brands

Cons

Non-commiserate salaries
Boys Club
Limited opportunities for growth

Pros

It is good to have on the resume, and will make people impressed that you worked there. Their #1 ranking is deceiving, but makes people think highly of you.

Cons

The people at the company are mostly fake nice, and rampant stab-you-in-the-back culture. Many are so sensitive to the threat of others that they don't share information.

Advice to Senior Management

Make things more structured. Don't believe that pushing new people into the deep end is a good way to manage.

Pros

cutting edge ad agency, friendly people, talented leadership, privately held.
Stan Richards is an honest man, and makes his agency a great place to work.

Cons

can be stressful, as you always need to be at the top--breeds competetivness, and can limit helping beahvior.
Long hours, though the culture at Richards is very much more family friendly than other agency's.

Advice to Senior Management

increase pay, increase communication to direct reports.