iProspect Reviews

- Extremely low, non-competitive pay. - Very little career advancement. - Ambition & hard work are not appreciated, at all. It's either "part of your job", or "you're trying to steal someone else' job" - Horrible office politics & gossip that make you uncomfortable all the time. - Inconsistent & unstructured team management. Very little transparency, too. There are just too many behind-the-closed-door things. - Self-involved upper management that just don't like innovation and disruptive breakthroughs. - Very little room for personal growth: you will get to learn the 101, 102 stuff, but that will be pretty much all of it. All those being said, the best talents and top performers would usually just leave, or even worse, be pushed out by the negative team dynamic.

I'll say it straight: nothing they promised during the hiring process actually happened. They say that they are one happy team but you understand quickly that there are two very distinct teams: the floor and the upper. They say that they'll give you a significant raise but it's quite the opposite. Open-door policy? There is nobody on the other side of the door to hear you. Team-building activities? The interesting ones were for the upper team only. Absent leadership: Top-level leadership are qualified but they are never present. And when I say never, it is never. They simply are not part of the iP team and it shows: they are more like Dentsu Aegis employee (the mother company) that shows up once in a while, they are way over you hierarchically and they want you to know it. When there is a crisis (and there has been several in the time I was there), they would show up, even sit with us for the appearances and disappear after a few hours. It seems they were always on vacations, on a retreat of focusing on some other new businesses that didn't involve the agency. Poor Management: The directors were under-qualified, were also often absent and were unable to manage crisis with employees or clients. Most directors have been named out of the blue from nowhere. Instead of opening the position, the bosses would simply name somebody with no real process. Middle-management is atrocious on all levels. Human Resources and Politics: HR gave us almost no raise, didn't replace the numerous seniors that left and when they did, they would hire interns. As a result, the pressure was enormous on the employees, the staff was more and more junior and the few qualified employees that stayed were incredibly cynical. They knew that management level job was unattainable, even if they were strongly qualified, and that they were probably better off as freelancer or at another company. To compensate, the company would give them low-level promotions as practice leads (or if they were very lucky, head). Everything felt incredibly politic and heavy, even if we were such a small team. Low Retention : Everybody who was somebody left. In the year I was there, we lost one or two employee per week. Most employees, like me, left within a year after we were hired. We lost all our best leaders and employees, the ones that made a difference. As soon as somebody was minimally qualified, he or she left. The word on the floor was quite clear: stay for a year, get some trainings and leave as soon as you can. Yet, management kept saying that everything was okay. Didn't make sense.