Toxic Culture, Lots of Lay-offs, Not Creative - Anonymous employee Diamond Integrated Marketing Employee Review

They have an anonymous feedback platform that employees are incentivized to use (for example: you get literal points and rewards and it also counts towards your reviews) which created an extremely toxic workplace with no constructive feedback provided. Account teams run the show here: everyone else is just supposed to follow their lead, which is often wrong, not strategically sound and feels like it is driven by financials. Often projects accepted don't even reflect the capabilities of the agency. Creative is seriously lacking - if you are looking to do great creative work, do not work here. If you're a good creative coming from a real agency, don't recommend this agency at all. Lay-offs happen regularly: it almost feels as if the lay offs happen to balance the books because they happened quarterly and a lot of talented people were let go. This has been the case for years. Senior leadership does not have any empathy for employees - with work life balance or other things. There are clearly people who are "favourites" and close to the senior leadership which means they don't experience lay offs on their teams and given all the resources required to do their jobs and more. People are applauded in town halls for working until 3am as if that isn't a failure of management and a lack of time management.