Sad Sinking Ship - Anonymous employee 22squared Employee Review

2.0
16 Mar 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most of the people doing the work are great. Depending on account, decent work life balance. Nice office space. People in Tampa genuinely seem happy.

Cons

This place has changed so much in the last year or so. The new CCO hasn't been able to bring in any substantial work and the agency is falling apart. His blatant disregard of the women in the office and his tendency to "look past them to their male partners" is often a topic of conversation. It's become a boys club, and you better be on the inside of that club. It's not good for the rest of us. I've also seen multiple older women be let go over the last few years, only to have their positions re-hire shortly after the "layoff". Not sure how there hasn't been a lawsuit yet. Everyone is trying to jump ship and all of the Atlanta advertising community knows it. Its been a race to leave and people speak of it openly in the office. Politics between the CCO and the home depot account have torn the agency in half. If you're interviewing at the newly formed Trade School, good luck... In general, the agency is not a creative-first agency (though they will tell you differently) and the work is sub par. Pay is lower than most of Atlanta.

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5.0
26 Jan 2026
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Pros

A rare place where the company actually cares about the people and the work is good - while still being balanced with life. Environment has only been collaborative for me, I’ve worked a lot of places that cannot claim the same. It’s special.

Cons

Limited growth opportunities at times. Not as high of pay as other tech companies, but worth it in my opinion due to work-life balance and other benefits that go beyond a paycheck

1.0
9 Oct 2025
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Pros

There are some genuinely amazing creative people here and an account team or two that supported a respectful “same team” communication style. Shout out to the JSs and other long-term good influences and mentors in that building keeping things relatively stable and copacetic amid the many well known failures of leadership.

Cons

There is a very good chance you will encounter openly hostile, mendacious, manipulative, and just ikky people who hold a lot of sway on a few very of their highest profile and most toxic account teams. The more dishonest, openly disrespectful, and bullying personality you have on those specific accounts has seemed to be their metric for advancement to the higher echelons. It has been in catastrophic decline for the past 6 years, so buyer beware, the money is probably great and the cost of living in ATL is amazing, but “cover thine-own-a$$” I left for greener pastures a few years back, so this isn’t written with bitterness, but the other bad reviews on here are a warning. If you are a good person, an honest person, and especially if you are a person of color, 22squared is not structured to help you advance, and you should expect to be constantly condescended to by genuinely dishonest manipulative people.

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