How are the career development opportunities at OMD?

Great culture, great clients, lots of exciting work and career opportunity

Requires office work no fully remote opps

- The Account Management/Media Planning team were spectacular to work with. - Learning experiences across various facets of media.

- While the company outwardly promotes DE&I, many individuals have experienced racism and homophobia from stakeholders, with HR failing to take such cases seriously. - Employees leaving the business may face hostility if they don’t follow an arbitrary resignation process. - The Head of Activation and HR Business Partner engaged in bullying tactics, sending aggressive and patronizing emails during the notice period. - The Activation Director prioritized avoiding conflict rather than addressing issues directly, often choosing to "keep the peace" instead of resolving problems effectively. - There was an unprofessional dynamic between the Activation Director and Activation Account Directors, including gossip about junior team members, which fostered a toxic work environment. - Many employees leave due to unrealistic expectations, overwork, and a lack of support. The company struggles with retention, especially at the junior and mid-levels. - Decision-making happens behind closed doors, leaving employees in the dark about company changes, team restructures, and career opportunities, including mandatory 3 days per week attendance and mandatory upskill with Activations and Investment, with zero pay increases. - Promotions are based on tenure, not merit; Hard work and strong performance are often overlooked in favor of how long someone has been with the company. Leading to unqualified stakeholders being promoted while high performers remain stagnant. - There is a clear "them vs. us" mentality between departments. Planning is well-supported and collaborative, while Activation is more isolated, with little effort to bridge the gap.

unlimited wellness days, extra long weekends, summer Fridays

Slow promotions, overworked, not enough recognition, no career planning

Have a big office in london

Lack management, internal growth opportunities are limited. Salary range lower than other agencies

Great leadership, handful trainings, good career path

Pay grade should match to other companies

good team and great growth opportunities easy to move between teams and promotions are giving out yearly

this year, promotions have been on freeze due to merger low low low pay bad benefits joke of 401k

As a junior in the media world, OMD gave some great opportunities to grow and meet likeminded people. As a starting salary it wasn't too bad compared to other offers I had gotten from competitors. If you put in the work to talk to other people it was great place to meet people and go out having fun evenings.

There was a profound lack of transparency regarding their graduate program. I joined as an executive but wasn't informed that I wasn't on the plan until 8 months after to which I missed out on the first increase. I was then added to the program with no explanation without back pay. When I was promoted I also wasn't informed I only found out via an email in my spam folder while clearing out my inbox. Their 3 day a week office mandate is a joke. There was no discussion on how to implement it and there was preferential treatment between the various teams which forced the teams actually coming in to come in at awkward times. There was no entity in place for social activities which ended up having execs running the social activities for the entire agency with very little support. Canteen was horrible. Bless some of the workers as they were lovely but it was always crowded, no where near enough seating. There is little to no inter team cooperation nor really any form of sharing good work around the agency hence it felt like each team was to their own. I also believe OMD should really review their hiring criteria as there have been several cases of inappropriate behaviour over the past year which should be taken more seriously and reminders should be shared more often around the agency. The team I was in was lovely however as we were a small team we would hardly ever get any callouts in the monthly connects as we just didn't have the people to vote for MVPs compared to teams of 20 or more. The amount of times I had to tell employees in the same agency what my team did said plenty.

Pleasure to work with talented and driven team. Everyone was excited about the brand and communicated well, especially when clients' pivoted directions and wanted deadlines to be met. Teammates were able to assist and provide guidance if there was something complicated or had trouble understanding. Many team bonding events after work and during work hours. Free breakfast and on-site barista every workday. Teams from other departments would showcase their work. The company offered many online classes to gain skills especially in Excel. There are lots of opportunities for upward mobility within the company. You just need to take the time to network with others, especially if there are different departments that you're interested in. It was nice to have scheduled one-on-one meetings with my manager when starting out as a new hire. This helped to ensure you're acclimated to the work and with the team.

Working in the advertising industry for a large brand is extremely fast-paced as the team expects new hires to hit the ground running within the first several weeks (if this is what you're looking for, go for it). I remember feeling overly stressed as the team would hardly take breaks, except for lunch. Also, we would have to be on top of emails. If there was an email that appeared during lunch time, one of us would have to take a short lunch and immediately return to work. There were days where we'd have to work overtime and over the weekends as this is salary-based with a starting amount of $40k/ year. This was non-negotiable at the time. From my experience with the team culture, working overtime was praised. It was a hybrid work schedule, however, upper management eventually wanted to permanently move back to an in-person 5-day work week. Unfortunately, I had a negative experience with a newly-appointed supervisor that expected perfection within several weeks of starting the job, and would throw condescending comments to new hires in front of the whole team. Upper management and other established team members would witness it first-hand, and not confront our supervisor. This continued on until I moved on to a different career opportunity.

Many office events and free alcohol Lots of snacks in office Tier 1 clients

Teams are always understaffed Slaves to clients No recognition of hard and smart work through salary

Culture People The clients Benefits Subsidised lunch in office

Progression is limited Office politics