Lack of WLB, Leadership, and Culture - Anonymous Giant Spoon Employee Review

-Work life balance is actually awful -They encourage you to go to office to build a meaningless rapport with your colleagues -Literal Sweatshop -Leadership doesn’t even care about you or wants to know who you are -Colleagues are smart individuals with creative ideas; however they’re so stand-off ish, stuck up, and super pretentious. -Absolutely fake culture and the office politics is actually baffling. -HR doesn’t care about you nor does your co workers. Prepared to be on edge at all times. Granted, it’s still a fairly small, independent, and new agency. However, there needs to be way more structure (at least when it came to my department I was working in). There are people taking way too much PTO when it came to important dates leaving the rest of the employees to fill in for them. There’s so much gossip and like 80% of the workers here are so pretentious, like wtf? Why are employees here thinking they’re better others because of their fancy titles. Awful office politics and the account managers be so inconsiderate of the employees here; they are a bunch of “yes women”. They take their clients requests without any type of thinking behind if their ideas are realistic or not; it’s like they’re afraid to say no. This place is a literal sweatshop, idk if its just my role but I had to do 10 things at once and of those things isn’t what I’m supposed to be doing. And after all said and done, not even a single thank you or appreciation is given! I’m literally over here doing PA work and the creatives are staring at me not willing to at least give a hand. I was working past normal hours since the offices are split between LA and NYC, which was a big factor to the WLB. Pretty sad. The culture of the company is so fake and I felt like my freedom of speech was revoked. I couldn’t even express my thoughts or opinions without having an insane filter that wouldn’t upset certain people. No one likes each other here, it’s very evident. Overall, be cautious of what you’re getting into. This could all be fixed with better leadership but other than the CCO I am pretty sure they have no idea what they’re doing in running a successful agency. It’s so obvious they’re trying to mimic droga5 but failing bad at it.