SCOUT Reviews

Projects are unorganized and timelines are tight. Creatives are expected to meet aggressive deadlines and work long hours, including nights and weekends. Most nights are 8:00pm. There is no creative leadership and no strategic direction. Account management is relatively inexperienced and lacks training to think strategically. Account managers do not partner with creative teams. Agency is privately owned and partners are heavily involved in daily projects. Agency does not employ a team-based approach and projects are not well managed. Leadership does not seem to care about its employees.

You sit at one of two tables: the cool kid table where you are invited to take part in the reindeer games or the leftover table where you spend endless hours servicing existing clients. Once you are relegated to the leftover table there is only way to go: away. You will no longer be recognized by management. Maintaining the client should not be a bad thing. It's what pay the bills so you can do amazing creative. But at Scout you are looked down upon. It's really pretty sad. The process could definitely stand an overhaul. Scout seems perfectly happy selling round upon round of revisions instead of strong messaging and accuracy. The management makes promises to land talent and once they're onboard, those promises are conveniently forgotten or used as leverage to encourage an action. It just made me angry.