Meaningful and fun work, but no work-life balance AT ALL - Talent Manager Monks Employee Review

2.0
Apr 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- coworkers are all brilliant, immensely fun, and inspiring to work with - make incredible industry connections, have fun doing creative work, and feel like you are actually making a real difference in people's lives - good benefits if we were able to use them all - Fully remote

Cons

- no work life balance at all. every single person on my team works until 10 or 11 every night to get all the work done that they are tasked with - management values the clients' satisfaction with the work over our mental health and they are afraid to say no to or set boundaries with clients. I can only speak to the talent team specifically - have PTO but feel like we cant use it

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5.0
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Pros

Good benefits and great coworkers Lots of room to Frow

Cons

Hard work life balance Sometimes unorganized

2.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Good pay. Started as a solid brand with talented coworkers.

Cons

No real upward mobility or promotion opportunity. Higher-level senior management is disconnected from creative leadership and tends to gamble a bit too much with client relationships. Agency promises a lot of benefits and growth opportunities for employees that do not come to fruition. When budgets get tight, they cut creative teams regardless of whether the account and employee have been performing well for the agency.

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