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Ad Practitioners Reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)
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Greg Powel

70% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Ad Practitioners has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Ad Practitioners employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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21 reviews
2.0
25 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great benefits (health insurance, laptop, vacation & PTO, catered lunch, etc.) and flexible work environment (casual dress code, ability to work away from desk, etc.). Occasional happy hours outside of the office.

Cons

No permission to work from home/remotely. Long commute from the San Juan/metro area. Lack of transparency regarding how annual employee evaluations are performed, expectations and comments from managers can be biased. There were a few romantic relationships between coworkers, including manager-employee relationships, which are conflict of interest and can make the office environment uncomfortable. Complaints about unfairness, mistreatment, and heavy workloads often went unanswered. Growth/promotions depend on the department, not accessible for everyone.

2.0
14 Dec 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good place for entry level positions. They are good at monetizing websites through ads - good place to learn.

Cons

They are sketchy. Their business model is entirely based on skewing advice for consumers and targeting the ads for their clients (who are the ones getting reviewed). They have a pay to play structure for their clients - so if they don't fork over money, they aren't getting reviewed no matter how much better it could be for the consumer. From an employer standpoint, they have no grounding in reality or any concern for their employees' happiness. In my tenure there, they never wavered in making decisions that saved cents for them and was detrimental to the quality of life for "the working class". The CEO is the male version of Elizabeth Holmes, but instead of a black turtleneck he wears short sleeve button downs - i.e. a sociopath selling vaporware while wearing the latest Silicon Valley couture. I would have no problem working for them while screwing over consumers, but I would have liked to have been paid the moral tax, instead they pay you like if you were working for a non-profit. All part of the scam. The craziest part is that most people at the company don't know how the company actually makes money, and those who do are NDA'd from the rest of the company. God forbid the rest of the company learns that revenue is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and their Puerto Rican writers are making $27K.

3.0
22 Feb 2021

Kind of a Mixed-Bag

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great people to work with (for the most part). - Great compensation, especially for Puerto Rico standards. - Company adapts to the employees needs, with some great company-wide activities. - Amazing supervisors that actually WANT you to grow within the company (particularly mine).

Cons

- Management freaking loves to toot their own horn. Make of that what you will. - AP continues to grow at a rapid pace, which is great. But it sometimes feels like it's growing for growing's-sake, rather than growing when the company needs it. I don't know what they're going to do when we go back to the office with double the workforce fitting in a relatively small building. - Company creates departments without a roadmap for employees within it to grow. - AP can be a bit rigid in terms of WFH (other than during COVID-times), even with most of its employees living more than half-an-hour from the office.

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