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Method Communications Reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(39 total reviews)
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David Parkinson

65% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Method Communications has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 39 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Method Communications employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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39 reviews
1.0
May 24, 2018

STAY AWAY

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Pros

Great downtown office location close to BART

Cons

Disorganized management, favoritism, unstable environment, poor communication with employees. Managers belittle employees and only promote their “friends”. Company is full of cliques and staff will exclude you if you are not a part of one. Managers do not take the time to train new employees and will not provide even minimal feedback on projects. If you are interested in gaining some PR agency experience, i suggest you look elsewhere.

1.0
Apr 11, 2016

PR Associate

Recommend
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Pros

Employees get to work on some really innovative clients.

Cons

Extremely heavy workload, poor employee communications, large amount of favoritism, poor HR presence when issues arose, unclear paths for growth, no opportunities for career development, frequent sexist commentary made my upper-level management The agency's growth is extremely impressive, however it is done on the backs of employees who often work 50+ hour work weeks, with average pay and compensation and VP's who take credit for the work of others.

2.0
May 31, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The employees here really are top notch and extremely hard working individuals with experience and industry insight. It’s great to work with such professionals. Unfortunately, that’s where the ‘Pros’ end. Before coming here I read all the 1-2 star reviews and hoped they weren’t true, giving Method the benefit of the doubt. Turns out, every one of them is true, regardless of the PR ‘spin’ trying to control the narrative that the company tries to put on it.

Cons

Employees are stressed to the gills with their work load. It’s no wonder you don’t hear laughter in the office. Method intentionally understaffs and doubles the accounts that employees are assigned too, compared to other agencies. People are stretched too thin and it shows in the rushed conversations and the off-loaded work onto Jr. Associates. Culture. What culture? If by culture you mean heads down all day long, with no one talking to each other, consistently working through lunches and ON vacations, then sure there’s culture here. Forget about taking a vacation here. Employees constantly complain about having to work nights and weekends to make up for the time they take off. So there’s no real time off. The words “hand holding” are frequently used when referring to the leadership team and HR’s excessive rules that accompany every new initiative. The people here are high caliber professionals and aren’t given room to breath and be adults. A little more fun would go a long ways here. One hour a week for “music Fridays” in a closed conference room doesn’t count as making Method more fun.

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