Great Starting Place - Assistant Account Executive Edelman Employee Review

3.0
Jan 11, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Edelman is a good place to start your career. With the major brands + companies you get to work with, along with the highly experienced professionals across sectors, you are truly gaining better experience than anyone else in the industry. It's a gateway to getting whatever job you want in the future.

Cons

Limited pay transparency + low salaries, specifically compared to the industry at large. Poor communication from leadership and upper management despite being the top comms agency in the country. Understand that PR is not where you go if you're looking to make bank, but rather complete meaningful work and gain experience to jump ship to an in house / project manager role.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Great clients. Great people to work with.

Cons

Office politics. Silly things that were sold to the client that just did not make sense.

2.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

I worked with some of the brightest and best people in the business. Most of them are no longer with the company. Some good clients, and nice office space.

Cons

Very limited opportunities for growth. During my time they reduced promotions to only once a year, and made many excuses for promoting as few people as possible (despite becoming the first "$1B" agency at that time). Morale was extremely low. People were forced to come into an office with nobody they actually worked with. Common to be passed from manager to manager. At one point I had 6+ managers within a 10-month span.

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