OMD Employee Reviews about "long hours"

Pros

Great people. Everyone is down to earth and friendly. Supportive working culture with initiatives such as 'work smarter not harder' to discourage long working hours but increased productivity.

Cons

Team structure at the time wasn't ideal but they have no restructured the whole company.

Pros

Agency invests in itself, employees, and resources. Aims to always be on top of the industry.

Cons

Not specific to OMD, but ad agency culture in general - long hours are expected and become a way of life.

Pros

Pro - Good benefits, time off, vacation. Great clients.

Cons

Con - Male Management won't let women employees take their time off for doctor appointments and vacation time. Management only care about getting credit for other employees (more creative, talented) hard work along with pocketing your bonus and salary increase. Freelancers get cheated out of hard earned wages and don't received their pay in a timely manner along with their vendors. Employees work extremely long hours 10+ on a regular weekly basis and work on weekends without gratitude or compensation. Low pay with no raise and no vacation time (4 yr employee).

Pros

Cool clients and breakfast options

Cons

Can be stressful and long hours

Pros

The people were great to work with and employees were very close with each other. Great experience overall and great people.

Cons

The hours tended to be long and a work life balance was hard to achieve.

Pros

Highly motivated people in the office and great way to network with others. Fun group of people to work with

Cons

Long hours that will for sure led to burn out and position are not refilled quick enough which will translate to extra work

Pros

The people are what makes the work fun

Cons

It can be long hours and stressful

Pros

Exciting blue chip clients, some talented people, opportunities to learn. Your experience would be entirely dependant on your specific team as well as clients. Hours aren't long if you are honest with your timesheets and communicate with line managers to shift things around. Generally decent culture with plenty of talented young people.

Cons

The size of the agency (and group) means too much bureaucracy, endless agency politics as well as a few bad apples. Pay not great at junior levels.

Pros

Summer Fridays, 5 each summer

Cons

It was the worst experience of my career. I was treated with zero respect and people talk to me any type of way with no support from management. My manager was incompetent and acted like he was busy all of the time to stay far away from the day to day responsibilities. I told my manager about poor treatment from a Director and he told me that the Director was just passionate about client relationships. Analytics Leadership at the LA office only care about what Directors and above say and don't take anyone else seriously. There has been massive turnover on the WF MarSci team and HR has failed to step in to figure out what's going on. Everyone that's left has been on the team less than a year. MarSci leadership does not care about the turnover and said its 'not such a bad thing when people leave.' Additionally, the client is constantly cutting budget and the future of the account is uncertain. Layoffs are bound to happen. There's a lot of tension between MarSci and Strategy that makes it more of a competitive environment rather than an unified environment. People on the Strategy team constantly throw people from MarSci under the bus to leadership and will smile in your face like it's nothing. People on the MarSci team will also throw you under the bus like its nothing. Everyone is for themself and does not like to take ownership of responsibilities. Overall, the WF team is a very 'Boys Club' environment. Women on the team are talked to with zero respect and often belittled, especially if you are a minority. It's a very unorganized team with no clear processes. You have to watch your back because you never know who is against you. The hours are very long and leadership is not appreciative of all the time you put in. Would not recommending joining OMD LA. You will regret it later.

Pros

Great social aspect, fun and friendly co- Worker’s

Cons

Long unsociable hours and not always valued for the extra slog