Toxic management team and even worser diversity - Advisor DEPT Employee Review

1.0
May 17, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Monthly food and drinks socials

Cons

Management team is terrible, its made up of people who think they know everything, but don't actually know how to manage or lead people. Even worse all of them are friends, so they always look out for each other even when they say and do things that are out of pocket. They have been there for years, so they get together and promote themselves but don't really know how to lead or manage people. The company has terrible diversity, oh its so bad, they will tell you they are diverse because of gender, 75% of people are female. But how is that diversity when that 75% is white females? They say they are working on it, but years later it only got worse and they literally started actually thinking about it when it almost cost them losing a client.

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5.0
Dec 11, 2025
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Pros

Lots of individuals that make up many teams from design, copy, motion, production artists, and even full-time strategists.

Cons

I left right before a big merge, so I can't speak to how it is after the merge. This review may be outdated.

1.0
May 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The design team is very talented and kind.

Cons

Very boring agency to work at. They only claim the agency is not doing good, "we don't have money" so no raises, 1.2% merit increases this year. This doesn't even keep up with inflation rate. At this company you will just be a number on a spreadsheet, waiting to get laid off because they would rather use a million different AI than hire any entry level positions. They fail almost every pitch because the leadership is empty-headed, comes in and changes the entire concepts and decks. And they claim they are very transparent and B-corp but they discriminate against POC all the time and lie about your prospects at their company. It's really not worth your nerves to work for them.

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