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Updated Sep 22, 2023
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- "Great culture, senior levels of leadership are great, lots of lunchtime brownbag sessions." (in 23 reviews)
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- "Senior leadership is a bunch of middle aged whites women who don’t welcome outside thought or inputs." (in 19 reviews)
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- 5.0Aug 29, 2023EVPCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsNew York, NY
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Independent firm, good perks/benefits, strong leadership, great culture of kindness. West Coast vibes, but NYC go getters.
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I don't really have any. I have worked at ~6 agencies of all sizes in my career and I think WE has a very special culture and people. Great place to be.
- 1.0Sep 22, 2023Assistant Account ExecutiveFormer Employee, more than 1 yearSeattle, WA
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Nice facility. Great location. PR work in general is inherently interesting and allows for some creative freedom.
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While my peers were generally easy to get along with, and appreciative of my work, my managers were noncommunicative and oblivious to the work done by most of the personnel 'beneath' them. I never thought too much of this, until I was eventually slated for 'separation' by the organization. During the probationary period in which I could supposedly re-earn my employment, I discovered they were ignoring my emails and erroneously reporting that I wasn't contacting them at all. Eventually my manager said I was doing well and went on vacation herself only a week before surprising me over video-chat (we were remote then) with the news of my termination. I can only imagine my firing was due more to some perceived 'culture clash' between myself and the company leadership, rather than any failings in my work, which could never be formally communicated to me. I wish I could say only these two managers were to blame for my poor opinion of WE, but the blatant self-promotion and political agendas rampant throughout company leadership left me with a poor impression of the whole organization. I've since seen most of my peers move on to more respectable PR orgs; I can only hope Microsoft and the PR industry at large eventually stop going to these kinds of companies for their PR needs.
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What does the Pay at WE communications or other agencies look like for account executive roles? I’m currently at a nonprofit looking to move to the corporate world but if I’m honest my benefits right now are great and I’m worried about leaving if the pay isn’t going to be higher.
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I don't have an answer to your question (reco checking the PRWeek Salary report and Glassdoor), but you should strongly consider work life balance as part of this equation, too.
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In talks with a recruiter with WE Communications for an Account Director role (Content and Channel Strategy) - anyone have any experience with interviewing with them? I'm feeling a little bit of imposter syndrome based on my years of experience (I'm about 2 years shy of what's on the job description) but all of my other experience and qualifications are a perfect match.
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On impostor syndrome, I’ll say that everyone feels it. If you like the role and are confident of taking it on (even if it’s an ambitious step up), don’t worry about your 2 years short. I’m sure you’re capable! I haven’t interviewed with them, but WE is very well known for their big tech sector clients and leadership, so showcasing an interest and understanding of that space (even if you’re going to interview for another industry role) as it may relate to your role/function would be good imo.
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WE Communications has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 520 reviews left anonymously by employees. 70% of employees would recommend working at WE Communications to a friend and 54% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -4% over the last 12 months.
70% of WE Communications employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated WE Communications 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at WE Communications to be career development, coworkers, benefits and the cons to be management, senior leadership, culture.
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It’s a pretty typical midsize firm. But just know their bread and butter is tech media relations. The agency culture is all built around Microsoft. They keep adjusting salaries up each year and are fairly transparent which is nice- but in my experience for senior roles they’re still slightly under market. They promote jr people fast to retain them, but then seem surprised when they’re unprepared for it and then their ADs and VPs end up being crushed picking up the slack. They didn’t do layoffs through Covid which is impressive, and people are pretty nice/it’s not toxic. The biggest issue is honestly just the volume of work and burnout.