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Hattaway Communications

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Squandered opportunities - Senior Associate Hattaway Communications Employee Review

1.0
Dec 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best thing about Hattaway is the clients. If you're lucky, you'll have one account that is a joy to work on. If you're lucky. If you're in the CEO's good graces, you'll be protected and given favorable treatment over others.

Cons

Company runs like a dysfunctional family, with leadership behaving like out-of-touch parents to dependent children. Leadership invests in toxic employees, seemingly unbothered by how it hurts morale. Management tokenizes employees of color, feigns ignorance when the behavior is pointed out, and makes those employees of color juniors on the accounts their backgrounds won. Some of the stories about how employees get treated that have been going through the grapevine for years at Hattaway sounded unbelievable to me at first, and then I personally saw the same things happen and I was gutted. It's sad because there's a lot of potential in this place. It just doesn't go anywhere because of really poor management.

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5.0
Jan 31, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- You get to work with awesome clients on really interesting projects - This firm doesn't operate like a typical big PR firm; clients don't own 24/7 of your time, there are good boundaries for work/life balance. - MAJOR flexibility: company trusts people to get their work done and find a schedule that works for them. Unlike major firms, there's no bureaucracy/red tape to request time off. There's a good culture of people actually taking all of their PTO and no one is judged/penalized for it. - There are really good people working at the firm.

Cons

- It's a small firm, so it can make changes quickly to make everyone's life better, but there's limited time and staff. - The firm has made great advances on DEI (publishing salary bands, establishing a clear code of conduct, launching a pro-bono program to work with more communities in DC); but more durable changes (having leadership that is diverse and more POC in leadership) is taking time.

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3.0
Feb 21, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Exposure to prestigious and high profile clients, as well as a range of clients through out a variety of industries. Flexible schedule. Creative work environment. Lots of opportunity to learn through the team and the different product frameworks.

Cons

No HR department or employees. The firm is small so upward mobility is not always possible. Management training and conflict resolution feels somewhat unstructured.

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