Excellent Workplace - Senior PR Manager Glo Creative Employee Review

Glo is a unique environment that invites you to be a part of something bigger than yourself - both in the world of media and tech. The President truly believes in incorporating creativity into every aspect of advertisement, public relations, and entertainment - and as a result, they accomplish amazing things. I was given the opportunity to learn, grow, think-outside-the-box and to never succumb to imposter syndrome. As the Senior PR Manager, it was my job to delegate work, design and produce, edit, review, and pitch/place deliverables in media. I can truly say that I’m grateful to have been pushed to think bigger and better - in a tech-friendly environment. If you want to get hands-on experience with some of the biggest names in the industry, attend exclusive events, and embrace innovation, I would 100% go to Glo. The President is also a caring person with amazing industry experience - he believes in taking a personal approach with his employees and offers a lot to learn from.

As a successful agency, Glo is growing every day, and can experience growing pains - but to me, that is normal for any successful agency. It can put some additional work on in-house employees, however, that is an industry norm and if you’re passionate about entertainment, creativity, and marketing - it’s not boring work. It’s going to be something dynamic, exciting, and outside-the-box - so I would say out of most challenges, that is a better one and the pro/con of that is up to the individual to decide. In my experience, it was actually a pro, and my leaving had nothing to do with the challenge itself, but rather outside personal circumstances.

I went into this position with high hopes, especially after the initial interview. These hopes were crushed, ultimately, but I view my time at Glo as a learning experience.

Glo Creative is an agency with so much potential. I was excited to work for them back in 2014. Management was quick to gloat about this new, innovative "New York agency without the New York price tag." Unfortunately, they're better at talking than doing. Week after week, I realized that upper management had absolutely no idea how to run an agency. Things were picking up, and they began hiring people without any actual agency experience, then were surprised when things didn't work out in their favor. Glo Creative is the type of agency that will have five employees quit in the matter of weeks, and never stop to think about their contribution to the dissatisfaction of their employees. Their employee retention is abominable. Even as a freelancer, I sat in my desk, and listened to how upper management spoke to freelancers and employees. This disrespect is the reason most campaigns were rushed, and clients were consistently unhappy with the work they spend thousands of dollars on. Do yourself a favor, and stay away from this