very good - Associate Director HarrisonParrott Employee Review

Fantastic Colleagues Opportunities for growth and stepping well outside comfort zone (if proactive and ambitious) Lovely office location Work is demanding and rewarding

Some company culture concerns Despite bureaucracy, decision-making feels ill-informed and full of personal bias

The other Artist Coordinators were great and helpful 6 free therapy sessions. You'll need them

When you read the reviews here, notice that the assistants and coordinators give low ratings and senior staff don't. Notice that assistants/Coordinators mention each other as the best thing about the job. It's because it's hell on earth and the only people who are interested in your wellbeing are the peers who are also drowning. Notice also how short periods of time people have been employed for. There's a reason for that. Systematic overtime. They even got a programme where you had to not only clock your hours but also say which tasks you were working on. They claimed it wasn't used as surveillance, but they'll be happy to use it against you if they try to figure out why you're not meeting targets. So draw your own conclusions. As a coordinator, you ask your peers for help. Not the managers. That's just something you learn when you've been belittled enough times. It's common to see people cry or almost cry during lunch breaks. I have seen higher-up people throwing tantrums, not just in writing. You will be told "that's the business, toughen up". But the second you leave HP and speak to others in the business, you'll realise that other agents and promoters and artists all know. HP is famous for being ruthless. I was told "you don't know how good you have it" when I handed in my notice. Now I know. It was terrible. When I tell people I used to work at HP, I often get a nervous face and a "what was that like?". I'd wish I'd known before I applied and started. You are likely to have artists who never perform in the country, so don't count on going to concerts and meeting your artists being a perk here. When you meet former ACs after they've also left HP, you'll bond over how nice your new jobs are and how terrible you had it at HP. Honestly, it's mad. The real world outside is nice. Managers are supposed to be nice. A red flag is a company with employees who have either been there less than 2 years or more 10 years. No in-between. Huge turn-over in junior staff, and managers are happy to trash talk those who quite or were fired when you take over as a newbie. There's so much talking behind others' backs within the company. Very unprofessional of the managers/directors. It's like being on a date with someone claiming all their exes were psychos. Maybe it's a them-problem? If HP think all of their staff are useless, isn't it on them to apparently not attract better applicants (salary and HP's rumor deters people)? Isn't it on them for not providing a better training and system? How come when you start at the job, you're told that all of your predecessors were useless? Why should you be the exception? The people before you all started in good spirits like yours, and it only takes about 6 months before you realise how your predecessor must have felt There are a few good people in senior positions. It's so easy to tell that they're sometimes carrying out work they can't put their name on. Giving you tasks, handling your frustrations etc with a sense of "I know what the company is doing is wrong but I'm following orders". I'd wish I could give 0 stars, but I guess the one star represents those managers/directors who try to help. I wouldn't wish this job on my worst enemy Also, the pay is a joke. Apply for the same job at any other agency, and you'll make more money and be happier. Literally no reason to apply for a job here. It took months in a new job to stop shaking whenever my phone rang and I saw my new manager's name in the display