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Use as a stepping stone to better opportunities - Anonymous employee Wicked Creative Employee Review

1.0
Jun 21, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- World famous clients - Great networking opportunities - You'll work interesting events - A great first position out of college

Cons

The owner leads on pure emotion and won't accept the fact that she can't micromanage an agency while living a state away (A fact she insisted we hide from clients). Wicked has an unacceptably high turnover rate - if you can last a year, you'll probably be promoted due to the high turnover rate among Account Executives creating new opportunities every few months. ... I went through three supervisors during my first three months with the agency! Also, it's absolutely unacceptable for an agency that's been around for 10+ years and works with multi- million dollar companies to bounce paychecks as often as Wicked does - again the owner. Look, when an agency has to stop posting team member profiles for everyone except the owner and her top two executives because the high turnover is " A bad look", there's probably a problem at the top.

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Wicked Creative Response
7y
There's a lot to address in the review. Let's start at the beginning. I have built a lot of structure in the agency and continue to add more all the time. We have time sheets, work is allocated based on hours retained by clients, and I can't think of a single instance that I have run the company by emotion, though I do care very much for our employees. I have always believed that adding a second office in our top feeder market has been beneficial to clients. Aside from wanting to let every client know personally, I never hid it and I spend at least one day in Las Vegas every week. With respect to turnover, we have gone through years where we have had close to no turnover, and then will suddenly lose a few employees - but I would say 4/5 employees leave because they either want to grow into a new market like Los Angeles or New York, or they want to leave PR entirely. For someone to have three supervisors in that amount of time is very rare - and I'm sure that made it difficult for you. Bouncing paychecks - that was an isolated incidence four years ago for a couple of employees, who were paid immediately. Our San Diego expansion was costly, and that timing coincided with our largest client falling four months behind. We don't put all of the bios on our website because no agency does. If anyone ever suggested it was "a bad look," it wasn't me. In the final comment - I trust the director of our Las Vegas office very much. The time I spend with Las Vegas employees is as a mentor, not to micromanage them. If you would like to address any of these issues with me, I welcome an email. I also read every exit interview and take all feedback into consideration to help us grow.

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