Young & Rubicam Reviews

Pros

- friendly environment
- global network
- wide variety of clients

Cons

- disorganized
- poor internal operations (employee reviews, raises, etc)
- the company as a whole is about 5 years behind the curve

Advice to Senior Management

Restructure, reintegrate and inspire

Pros

It is a great work environment. Y&R is truely a family and a great place to start and continue your career

Cons

The salary is not really great (but that is the entire industry) and you work long hours with no overtime.

Pros

Nice team, mature CEO, near the house

Cons

Low salary, bad motivation, small holidays

Pros

Today Y&R has been passing some significant changes that affects traditional athmosphere of peacefull and quiet agency of average quality. the situation is far from relief but there is a hope that these changes will be for good sooner or later.
Y&R strictly follows all local laws so you can be confident that your monthly pay check will be on time and you won't be laid off in a day - that's almost impossible if you passed trial period
Location is quite comfortable even the office is rather small for 200 people
Strong account people who know how to keep clients happy

Cons

Wrong place if you want to win a Cann Lion - realy good creative product is not about Y&R
No digital in house, weak expertise on this topic overall
Clients' interests always go first: even if you propose really great idea the agency won't support you if a client doesn't like it
No internal trainings for anyone
No compensation for overwork during working days (only on weekends)
No salary revision for many years (you can have the same salary for three years)
No annual bonuses any more for entry and middle level employees
Top managment club is the very closed society of people who have worked together for more than a decade
Tiny office with the very small canteen

Advice to Senior Management

Stop to pretend that people want to work in Y&R
Invest in a new cool modern office
Train people at essential skills

Pros

The people are good to work with. Very 'team' oriented. We work as one together.

Cons

Wish there was more opportunity for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

More transparency.

Pros

Great, knowledgable people who have been in the business for a long time. Comfortable working environment, teams are somewhat like families.
Dogs are allowed!
Baller print production department - this group is as smart at they come and work there asses off to get print out in time.

Cons

You can work your ass off but until you've "put in your time" and there's a spot open, you won't be promoted. And even once you are promoted, you won't get your [insubstantial] raise for another six months or so, IF you even get it (budget cuts). You have to "butter up" the right people to even get to talk about being promoted.
The clients are old school, just like the agency. Everything digital goes straight to VML so don't go here if you want to get digital experience.
Not an integrated agency, they don't work well with others and ideas are barely every spread across more than two mediums (print and TV).
The morale is terrible (probably because everyone there knows we suck) and everyone in the lower levels is interviewing to get out.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Make Y&R an agency, not a corporate strategy firm
2. Treat the people that actually do the work (AAE-AD) with some respect and some compensation
3. Improve the clients businesses we have now instead of spending millions on new business pitches we know we won't win

Pros

Great clients, opportunities for growth, good working environment, great perks and benefits.

Cons

The work is very solid but rarely stellar.

Advice to Senior Management

Power up the creative output.

Pros

The people are great, the history impressive.

Cons

Annual raises/reviews are non-existent, A bit understaffed.

Pros

Friendly group of workers, tight and cooperative atmosphere, teams are organized well with a lot of managers. Exposure to a lot of different brands globally.

Cons

If your education was numerical or engineering this kind of atmosphere may annoy you because there's a lot of opinions and not a lot of analytic skill backing it up.

Advice to Senior Management

Sometimes the inspirational messages get a little repetitive, and are doing little to inspire me personally. They feel condescending at times.

Pros

Lots of potential, flexibility, and desire

Cons

Low moral, lacking direction and leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Need leadership