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      Account Executive - Account Executive Edelman Employee Review

      2.0
      Aug 7, 2018
      Account executive
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      Pros

      - Looks excellent on a resume if you want to be in PR. - Excellent client roster. - Free Shake Shack sometimes.

      Cons

      - Women are promoted significantly less often than men; the junior workforce is 85% women and senior management is 85% men. - People absolutely fudge their hours to boost their utilization rate, which especially sucks for nonprofit clients. - Diversity is nonexistent. Edelman employees are largely white, from upper-class backgrounds, hyper-extroverted, non-disabled. - The 360 review process allows coworkers who are literally competing with you for promotions to weigh in on whether you advance or not. - Managers can be hit or miss -- mine pretty much forgot I existed until I put in my 2 weeks notice, and then she refused to look at or speak to me (not even a "farewell"). - Hyper-competitive environment. - Work-life balance is nonexistent - I regularly worked 9am-9pm and then was expected to be "on call" when I left the office.

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      Edelman Response
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      I'm disappointed to hear that you had a less than ideal experience at Edelman and I’d welcome the opportunity to talk if you’re willing to share more specific feedback about work/life balance, your review experience, your work environment or anything else (maria.okeeffe@edelman.com). I was also concerned to read the stats you included about diversity. While increasing diverse representation of our staff continues to be a major priority, I want to take a moment to share our current stats for anyone else reading this. In the U.S., four out of five geography presidents are women (80%), which is in addition to our female US COO, US CFO and Chief Talent Officer. Our US workforce is currently more than 25% racially and ethnically diverse and over 50% of our EVP and above employees are female. We are actively working to improve further, while taking care to prioritize inclusion initiatives, as well. Thanks for your review and I hope to hear from you. Maria O'Keeffe, Executive Director US HR.

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