- Excessive turnover, especially of new hires. - Really basic marketing projects. - Breakneck pace for inconsequential basic marketing projects. - Top down management style. - You'll be dictated estimates and have to justify every overage (and you'll always go over). - Tedious time entry and task tracking, even for an agency. BlueModus has gone to great lengths to craft their near-perfect image including attempting to restrict people from posting negatively on Glassdoor. This is the key to how they maintain their high score here. In reality, this is a company that is constantly hiring because most of their new hires leave after a few weeks. Some get fired as early as a week and a half into their tenure. There's an amazing amount of overhead on each team. There are multiple layers of directors, managers and leads on each team before you even get to a true individual contributor. They "only hire seniors" but it's debatable what their definition of a senior is. Estimates are delivered top down and are ridiculously low. This probably gets clients to approve more work, only to be told later it will take longer and cost more. While they don't have any on-call or official off-hours responsibility, almost everybody is working at night or on weekends at some point to "make up time." They are big on advertising flexibility if you need to pick up a sick kid from school or something, as long as you make up every single minute. You will be nickel-and-dimed to death on your timesheet and PTO. So no on-call, but the flexibility they offer is very surface level and not incredibly hard to find anywhere else. I will say that I don't think there's anything "toxic" about what they are doing. It is definitely overbearing, annoying, and very much indicative of micromanagement (which they'll aggressively deny), but they aren't cursing people out or bullying anybody. I don't get why people think the CEO is likeable. He comes off as whiny and dismissive. They also have some culturally reprehensible clients that they keep tucked away and off of their marketing materials.
