Wunderman Reviews

Pros

Occasionally you get to work with good clients and/or account people if they stay around for a bit. Overall most of the senior account team are administrative robots and not strategic marketers

Cons

Retention is really bad as decisions on raises, bonus, etc are made are driven by the NY office who are struggling themselves so nothing ever happens in this regard

Advice to Senior Management

Know you limitations and hire professional management to right that ship. Start with the existing people and come up with consistent and compelling strategies to retain and develop the best

Pros

-great people
-good opportunities for collaboration
-nice benefits and vacation
-decent agency/creative vibe
-if you are lucky, insightful managers to learn and grow from

Cons

-work/life balance is poor, depending on time of year, client, and manager expectations
-senior management and HR are unable to set expectations well with employees
-unclear and too discreet about how raises, spot raises, and promotions are provided
-clients lack respect to some work of the work produced

Advice to Senior Management

Wunderman is great way to start and possibly a great way to end a career, but something needs to be done to maintain the workforce that actually executes on client work, do what you can to keep great talent, instead of try to suck the life out of them until they decide to leave.

Pros

Creative enviroment
Challenging accounts
Nice offices
Good human entourage
Flex friday

Cons

Low salaries
Poor motivation
Not a good place for growing as a professional

Pros

- Exposure to well known clients
- Diversity of work
- Lots of learning opportunities by essentially being thrown into everything right from start.

Cons

- The employee turn over is astonishing. I have never seen so much turn over.
- Very low morale
- Work load expectations are incredibly high due to account management not managing client well. One can easily wind up working evenings and weekends on a regular basis without a competitive wage.
- The senior leadership just doesn't exist or frankly it seems that they don't care about their employees.
- There's quite a bit of "make work" projects that never seem to lead to any real progress on any project.
- Extremely understaffed.
- Employees are expected to do the work of multiple employees with lower than average industry pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Higher better leaders who care about their employees and have clear goals and vision. Higher more do'ers as the company is very top heavy.

Pros

It's one of the most ego-free agencies I've worked at. Everyone is for the most part professional, engaging, helpful and supportive. Good open door policy with senior management encourages a lot of communication. Lots of teamwork.

Cons

Its clients are mediocre marketers with a very rigid idea of what they need to say. This tends to make the assignments very run-of-the-mill, and can discourage a lot of innovative thinking. There is very little pro-activity with regard to the clients. Instead, the agency waits to get brief from them instead of going to clients with great ideas for assignments. As a result, morale is low.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out what differentiates the agency from the umpteen others just like it, instead of trying to be all things to all clients. Move away from clients that grind everyone down or don't raise the profile of the agency.

Pros

Simply put: the people are amazing.

Cons

Loyalty is not rewarded and no development plans are in place.

Pros

Smart executive team.
Incredible opportunity for exposure to several companies within the network.
Great career experience.

Cons

There is no reward or incentive for your work and dedication -- more of a "let's see what we can get from this person before offering more compensation" type of culture.

Top-heavy which will begin limiting opportunities for growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider performing 360 evaluations of management as a key to understanding both breakdowns in current processes and effectiveness of managers.

Pros

-Benefits are good
-People are fun
-Hours are reasonable

Cons

-Promotions are so difficult to come by
-Office is horrible
-'Senior' people are a joke

Advice to Senior Management

Respect people more and give them appropriate job titles!

Pros

It is a global company

Cons

Too hierarchical, senior management don't listen to employees, not a fun ad agency to work at, low moral.

Advice to Senior Management

See above.

Pros

1. Knowledge about Direct Marketing
2. Knowledge about Digital Marketing
3. get experience, learn and move away....
4. Huge potential in today new internet marketing wave.

Cons

In Panama the Office is not part of the Worldwide network, so you end up working for a local family business with no interest in peoples growing and skills. Just filling their pockets with the client money.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn from big companies around the world or even locally in Panama. Keep the good ones and help them grow in their professional and personal lives. Participate in today learning world, give your people the right tools to work for you... you will see the benefits in clients and revenues. Invest in people and technology.