Unhealthy Culture and Average Work - Anonymous employee MJM Creative Employee Review

1.0
May 21, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company is owned by WPP and the benefits are fantastic generous vacation days, more holidays than most companies.

Cons

Bullying is allowed to run rampant. Screaming, yelling and unprofessional behavior are common place at the senior-most level of the company. Senior management fundamentally distrusts the employees and everyone is on a need-to-know basis. As a result the full potential of the staff and company are not realized. Staff turnover is extremely high. Creative work is very average.

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1.0
Dec 5, 2016
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Pros

Pay is at or above competitive market value. Standard benefits. The fact that it's a WPP owned company means that even though the CEO and senior creative are borderline psychopaths, the company will likely make it another year. Great work is produced and the rest of the team does well.

Cons

Employee turnover averages seven months due to people being harassed, belittled, criticized, and continuously accused of lying and overall incompetence by the CEO and senior creative. There's only so much their "target" can take before they find a healthier work environment. Those who stay are overworked and expected to be available at all times regardless of how urgent the matter is. Yelling, cursing, throwing things, and talking badly about previous staff members are the norm, and the CEO and senior creative excuse the unprofessionalism as "being part of the culture". The CEO operates with a constant level of paranoia that means everything is a huge secret and he won't give any team members all relevant project information until the project is well underway. Both also micromanage when they do actually dole out those few menial tasks that they can stand to let go of. The senior creative has no ability to interact in a professional manner with anyone, that being said, I foresee it costing MJM their biggest client.

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