Associate Creative Director Art Side - Anonymous employee ICC Lowe Employee Review

I worked with great teams

You definitely have to put in some extra hours at times

ICC Lowe is located in northern New Jersey. The location is convenient and it means that you can drive home when you finally get to leave at midnight and are half asleep, rather than taking a car service home from a NYC agency.

Mid- and senior-level management is unprofessional and cutthroat. Backstabbing is the norm. People work in constant fear. It's a dog-eat-dog environment. The company has been firing older employees with higher salaries on a regular basis for a few years. Although it is pretty well known that these are staff reductions, the company will not admit it and continues to claim it is doing well. The creative work has suffered greatly due to poor direction and an inability to judge quality work by mid- to senior-level managers. The clients are not happy. There is no work-life balance. Employees are pressured to cancel doctor appointments, vacations, holidays, and even the cherished "free" week off between Christmas and New Year's. The health insurance is expensive and not very good. It's not as if you can actually use the health insurance, because you are constantly asked to reschedule essential medical appointments and procedures. The hours are very long. It is the norm to work into the late night hours. Dinner may be free, but it is ordered very late and it's usually just pizza. Combine long hours, junk food, inability to go to the doctor, high stress, and you've got a very unhealthy atmosphere. Now that FCB has bought the company it will be "interesting" to see the very same people who threw others under the bus experience the very same thing.