Toxic Environment, awful leadership - Anonymous employee Elephant Employee Review

1.0
2 Apr 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some people are really talented and kind, especially mid-level design team. Makes you understand clearly what you don't like and the type of leader you don't want to be.

Cons

Very hard to sum up all that is wrong with this place, but I think the most unforgivable issue is the dishonesty. Lies all the time, to clients, internally and during the interview process. Leadership is absolutely atrocious. They have no idea what they are doing so the solution is to blame other people for their own failures. They take no responsibility and act like kids every time something goes wrong. The toxicity gives me anxiety just thinking about it. There's a very well established blame culture put in place, people point fingers at each other without any shame. I thought I've seen it all in this crazy advertising world, trust me Elephant takes it to a whole other level.

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