Interbrand Reviews

Pros

Smart and talented people, benefits, vacation, PTO, kindness, and professionalism- We work hard but also know how to have fun, we're not only coworkers we're friends

Cons

Every place has ups and downs

Advice to Management

Nothing to say here, Management listens, responds and helps with any difficult situations

Pros

Has good company culture. It is very global, so you tend to get many opportunities for global projects and training.

Cons

Low pay...company needs to be more innovative in terms of their service...Very commercialized...

Pros

co-workers, vacation, and nothing else

Cons

IT infrastructure, out of touch leadership, inadequate support from leadership, non-existent business plan/strategy.

Advice to Management

Abandon ship.

Pros

Some potential new business on the horizon, but compared to most agencies, business is still bad. In the years I’ve been here, there have been lay offs every year. Only a small number of people get ‘promoted’, which management will never explicitly own up to the fact that a good number of ‘promotions’ don’t actually come with a raise.

Cons

There is a deep lack of diversity in the workforce, which has made us less competitive and desirable to our clients. We’ve also lost a lot of potential business due to lackluster ideas and creative, time and time again suggesting that the issues lie with certain executives whom never seem to be accountable for losing /not winning accounts.

Advice to Management

Management needs to recognize the need to cultivate a truly diverse and respectful environment for people of different backgrounds.

Pros

Not much. You'll work on well-known brands

Cons

The most important thing for anyone considering a position at Interbrand to understand is that the company has not been profitable for at least 15 years. I worked for Interbrand for over 10 years, and I could never figure out just what it was the company was trying to sell to its clients. In management's mind, being a 'branding consultancy' is top-shelf intellectual activity, and a lot of highly-educated folks are...

Pros

Coffee machine and decent bagels provided daily.

Cons

Low salary, no flexibility on that. The business isn't doing well, so you probably can't count on a raise. There are no female creatives in higher positions. The entire design team is made up of white men, with the exception of 2 people. Very heavily male office, and the culture reflects that. Sexist comments and the classic male behavior (interrupting, condescending) can be expected. As a designer of any level,...

Pros

lots of national brands to work on

Cons

many hours of overtime required

Pros

Some of the smartest, kindest people I've ever worked with work here. If you find your way into the right niche, you'll have the opportunity to learn from these incredibly smart people, and really push your craft, whatever that craft might be. The work-life balance is pretty OK if you realize that nobody cares about doing stellar work and the ones who do care can't tell stellar work from a big pile of junk, so you...

Cons

Where to start? Senior management doesn't really understand what the company does, or why it's been failing financially for years, or what success for the company would look like. Our former global CEO was stupid, and he was afraid of people who were smarter then him, so 90% of senior leadership was populated with people even stupider than he was. We got a new global CEO, and while he cleaned house a little bit, he also...

Advice to Management

Pay your employees what they're worth. Invest real, tangible dollars in training and perks. Stop wasting time, money, energy, and goodwill on innovating just for the sake of innovation, and start focusing on what's actually broken (hint: it's not the quality of the work we deliver).