Siegel+Gale Reviews

Cons

No major cons when compared to other places I've worked!

Cons

- Travel can be demanding
- Pace is fast and some people sink
- A general feeling that if you're not running around with your head cut off, you don't have enough to do

Cons

Although working with primarily blue chip clients is great at times and is certainly a resume builder, it would be great to work with more smaller, scrappier clients, which often comes with broader opportunity to stretch your creative muscle.

Cons

poor management, no growth not fun or nice

Cons

Lacks creative direction and innovative, game-changing thought leadership. Chaotic project management.

Cons

- Maintaining work-life balance can be challenging, especially in the 4th quarter

Cons

If you're looking for a "boutique" experience with clients who are small, exciting start-ups, this isn't the place for you. Clients tend to be corporate powerhouses, but I've always been encouraged to do daring work and push boundaries, even if it's not what the client ultimately buys.

Cons

Like many other reviews here refer to: Siegel+Gale is immensely siloed and it was the one great hang-up of my time there, chiefly because my job involved interacting with each and every department across a global company, regularly—and this made things very, very, very difficult for my workaday life. My duties were often obstructed by management gamesmanship, interpersonal conflicts from department to department, and a distinct "heads-down" mentality that is not only unhealthy, but frankly surprising in a 21st century organization. Much of S+G's work rests on a legacy of work that existed before the disruption of "digital"—and that's perhaps the biggest issue with the company. "Digital" should not be in quotes, even in conversation, and while management made a move to start staffing this focus-specific talent, you could see them walking around with the quotation marks hanging above their heads, indicating that while these people could "do" digital, they "were not" digital. Digital is an operative workflow and orientation that should not be "first" but baked into everything that the company conceives for clients, even if they're asking for more traditional work—digital is everything we do now, as people, in business and as brands. This fear of operating within the arena of how branding, marketing and advertising is done now is not only repellant to talent that would otherwise want to work at a company like S+G, but makes the company look dated, slow-to-act, and ultimately unimpressive in the client consideration set. It is by far the biggest reason S+G loses work to rivals, and one of the most telling reasons why employees cite a culture of silos and internal competition that turns them away from what is an otherwise "good" company. The industry has changed, which means the culture of a company must change with it—and for that reason, the culture of S+G is one of the biggest cons. It's not about digital; but it is about making employees feel at home in the work they do through cultural stimulation and education, cross-departmental workshops that allow other competencies and groups to give input on both work and direction of the firm, and a commitment by upper management to look at the causes of cultural dissonance within the organization, rather than just diagnosing them and hoping they fix themselves. Across the whole of the company, management needs to take a hard look at itself in the mirror and reassess how they prioritize new business over cultural advancement within the company—only then will the whole firm move forward as a singular entity rising to meet the challenge of a changed work and employee culture.

Cons

Groups can be very siloed

Cons

This is a tough question. There isn’t a con I can identify but rather Siegel+Gale’s culture is built to empower those who are truly smart, nice and unstoppable. Siegel+Gale (S+G) sets the industry standard when it comes to global brand strategy, design and experience, so the one thing that is constant is innovating the way the firm unlocks the power of simplicity to help organizations realize their full potential. To thrive at S+G, one must be smart, nice and unstoppable, while always being committed to connectivity, creativity, global collaboration, excellent service and follow-through. Again, not a con, just a specific culture that fosters constant growth opportunities; which is actually a pro for personal and career development!