A Career Killing Environment - Anonymous employee ICC Lowe Employee Review

1.0
May 25, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unfortunately at ICC Lowe there are no pros what so ever.

Cons

ICC Lowe is a unhealthy environment. Nobody knows what they're doing and they don't promote growth in your position. You're stuck there. To many older people who are way out of date on everything. They're still on a folder system and these folders are the size of bibles. Seriously? How ancient can you get. They aren't even doing anything digitally to help their process. People write on rounds and rounds of changes. It's so bad no one can read each other's handwriting, which causes more rounds of work, which keeps everyone at the office late. This is a environment/industry that kills your career. I don't recommend anyone joining it or working in it. It is boring, cut and dry. The work is not fun, and uninteresting. No one likes their job and is miserable. Many people have been fired recently due to FCBs take over. The senior people cower waiting to see if they're going to be fired. What ICC doesn't tell you is that they have 3 offices. ICC Lowe, ICC Lowe Trio, and ICC Pace. They shift their employees around working at various offices because they don't have the budget or money to have talented people working their. These people at the other offices are inexperience, out of date, and obsolete. I've seen some creative directors who can't director or aren't tech savvy with the latest products. They have no knowledge of current application designs and don't understand the concepts of new designs in technology. They repeatedly ask questions. Think of trying to explain how and why a iPhone works to your great grandfather, and they never understand the concept. They create more problems then they solve.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Mar 20, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

ICC Lowe is located in northern New Jersey. The location is convenient and it means that you can drive home when you finally get to leave at midnight and are half asleep, rather than taking a car service home from a NYC agency.

Cons

Mid- and senior-level management is unprofessional and cutthroat. Backstabbing is the norm. People work in constant fear. It's a dog-eat-dog environment. The company has been firing older employees with higher salaries on a regular basis for a few years. Although it is pretty well known that these are staff reductions, the company will not admit it and continues to claim it is doing well. The creative work has suffered greatly due to poor direction and an inability to judge quality work by mid- to senior-level managers. The clients are not happy. There is no work-life balance. Employees are pressured to cancel doctor appointments, vacations, holidays, and even the cherished "free" week off between Christmas and New Year's. The health insurance is expensive and not very good. It's not as if you can actually use the health insurance, because you are constantly asked to reschedule essential medical appointments and procedures. The hours are very long. It is the norm to work into the late night hours. Dinner may be free, but it is ordered very late and it's usually just pizza. Combine long hours, junk food, inability to go to the doctor, high stress, and you've got a very unhealthy atmosphere. Now that FCB has bought the company it will be "interesting" to see the very same people who threw others under the bus experience the very same thing.

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