Great learning opportunities in a rigorous environment - Account Executive Highwire Employee Review

Leadership is thoughtful and decisive. You’re surrounded by smart and genuinely talented people. Expectations are clear and achievable and work life balance is respected in a way that’s uncommon for agencies. It’s a high performance culture with great structure -- agency life doesn’t get much better than this.

The pace can be intense, particularly given the caliber of clients and the visibility of the work. High expectations come with high profile accounts, so responsiveness and flexibility are essential. That’s the nature of agency life, but it does require resilience.

- One of the few companies that have kept their DEI initiatives. - Hybrid schedule

Whew! Where do I start? - PR management seems to be fine, but if you’re on the digital side…good luck. - No clear career path. - This company is always hiring, but over the past year they’ve quietly laid off dozens of people. - There’s extreme favoritism. Some folks who leave on their own accord get a full send off and even a happy hour toast while I learned others were gone via a company-wide email sent after they had already left. - They don’t value humans. Ever since they got a holding company involved, it’s only about the bottom line. The company is bleeding money so they get rid of people to try to patch the wound. - The culture used to be great apparently, but in the last 2 years, it’s really gone downhill. - They keep PRing you like everything is fine, then another round of firings happen. You never know if you’re on the chopping block. Everyone is on edge all the time never knowing if you’re next. - Overworked, underpaid, zero guidance.