Interpublic Group Reviews

Pros

Best performing company in its peer set -- so always nice to be part of the winning team. The people in the top positions are nice, fair and hard working -- including the CEO. It's one of the few corporate environments where you are still connected to the creative arts.

Cons

Corporate culture is fairly formal.

Pros

Wonderful experience, learned so much about programmatic media and data analysis

Cons

low pay for job requirements

Pros

Interesting industry and good salary and benefits

Cons

Lean staff support, lack of future vision.

Advice to Management

Consistentltreatment of employees and more flexibility in schedule to accommodate a better work-life balance

Pros

Good people to work with. Good tech. Good Challenges. Good overall company. Middle Mgmt is relatively good.

Cons

Complicated organization. Often lacks intra-organization communication.

Pros

Excellent benefits package, lots of PTO (starts off at 23 days - 18 days PTO, 4 Summer Fridays, and 1 floating holiday), casual work attire, opportunities for advancement and pay increases after a year of employment, only required to work 37.5 hours/week but paid for the full 40, overall great company culture and morale.

Cons

High turnover in the Production Billing department

Pros

Overall, the company seems to embrace diversity with regard to Title VII. Benefits are pretty good - particularly with vacation time. I've heard others say theirs was much better though, so I guess it's all relative...

Cons

Speaking for my little corner of the IPG universe (one of many agencies) , management changes had really begun to kill the positive atmosphere. We used to actively celebrate diversity, participate in community/civic minded activities, and have a healthy fun but hard working work environment. When management changed, over a couple years pretty much all that stopped. I don't care so much about the annual baseball outings...

Advice to Management

Listen to your people. When there is a problem with someone in management and virtually everybody is reporting it to anyone who will listen - do something about it.

Pros

CEO is AWESOME! Actively involved and working on inclusion and diversity in the advertising industry. PTO/FMLA/Holiday ...is one of the best around. That is crucial as a working parent. Strong work life balance which allows you to be the best employee while also taking care of home too! Benefit package offers many options to participate in.

Cons

While CEO is awesome with his work in diversity and inclusion-you don’t really see it in HR at the Corp level. Lower level employees aren’t paid well. Lose a lot of quality employees due to wages.

Advice to Management

Work on diversity at visible Corp levels. Work on improving wages. Lower level employees are predominately female and many are moms. IPG can work to help raise wages on all levels.

Pros

Decent benefits. Lots of holidays off and PTO allowance is very generous.

Cons

Departments are clicky and can be terrible with communication at times.