Never in my career have I experienced a more corrupt and incapable company that is and full of nepotism and rife w/ fear - Anonymous employee Dieste Employee Review

1.0
Sep 16, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- SOME great co-workers, some of which I have excellent relationships with - friends for a lifetime. - Decent standing within Hispanic agencies - Ability to express one's self, bring the camraderie to work in a positive / professional manner

Cons

- Undermined, disrespected, and wrongfully terminated the former CEO - Warren Harmel. - Management refuses to let go of unproductive / incapable staff members, which drives the bottom line up, make us look stupid with the Client, and creates terrible work. - Perpetuates that notion of "La Hermandad" (The Brother Hood) - a protection racket at work where upper management protects friends above performance and accountability - Hires almost exclusively out of the US (or has had) - most future employees have some kind of preexisting relationship with Upper Management ( e.g. Aldo Quevedo) and are part of La Hermandad - Disrespect process after years of training and implementation - Lack of detail orientation, which requiries more time making changes than it does producing an ad. - Super poor leadership - Aldo Quevedo (now at The Richards Group), previous CEO (post Harmel), Carmen Baez (Omnicom) - Incapable of meeting #$s with Omnicom, which has forced Omnicom to interfere, see how incapable DHP is, and make some management changes - some for the bad, some for the very good. I have much more, but this covers the basics.

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1.0
Dec 28, 2024
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Pros

The fact that you can dis appear for days and no one knows where you are it. No needs to show up for work and still get paid.

Cons

I was at this job less than a year, the person before me was there last in the year, the pror before that one was there less than a year. This is a revolving door. Management has no idea how to run this agency. I am surprised they haven't been closed down. Omnicom needs to keep an eye on them. It is a norm for the team to simply get up in the middle of a meeting and not come back. I guess they forgot the cameras are on while they are having a client meetings. This is the reason they have lost so many accounts please do yourself a favor and do not apply to this agency. It is a norm after negative review for them to come back and write an exceptional review.

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