Terrible Company Stay Away - Senior Display Associate Merkle Employee Review

1.0
Dec 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Above average pay and compensation

Cons

Awful Culture, Leadership lack skills, they are trying to get into marketing and advertising but it’s not what they do and they are terrible at it. Worst agency I’ve ever been at. Hell I never even spoke to HR the entire time I was there except for one day when they told us we are all getting laid off because they lost an account which they lost because they failed to do anything innovative.

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Merkle Response
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We are sorry to hear that you did not have a great experience. Merkle's HR department has an open door policy and we provide many channels to contact us. We encourage all of our employees to contact a member of the HR department without hesitation with any concerns. We did recently lose a large account in the Los Angeles area due to circumstances that were outside of our control. We are pleased that we were able to place more than 75% of the employees into other roles at Merkle to minimize the impact that the loss of the account had on our Los Angeles office. We appreciate all of our employees and the hard work that they put in to contribute to Merkle's success. We wish you the very best of luck in your future endeavors.

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