GOTHAM. Reviews

I can't believe this place has a 3 star rating. That's way too high. Where to even begin... - Looooooong hours. Super late nights, all the time. Frequent weekends. All to do something that has a 50/50 chance of completely changing the next day or just being dropped. - Speaking of those late nights and weekend work, they'll only let you know about it maybe a day in advance. Then you're expected to drop your life and bend to their will. - There's also virtually no compensation for working these extra days - for every 5 you might get 1 back. - If the client likes what you've done, the Creative Directors take credit. If the client doesn't like what you've done, you get thrown under the bus. - You only get proper pay/raises/promotions/good projects if the higher ups like you. Doesn't matter if you're just as talented or work hard, it's a popularity contest. - Instead of promoting within, they will hire people with less experience than you to work above you and get paid more than you. So much for company loyalty! - Again, when they do promote within, it's dependent on whether or not they like you personally. If they don't, be prepared to wait years for that promotion, if it ever comes. - The work gets stale, fast. It might seem cool at first but everything is just recycled. Very rare to get something totally original in print or TVC. - Poor management in general, for account and creative. - Poor work distribution - if you're a Junior, you'll work on the same projects as a Senior would, but you get paid half as much. You will also often get more work than they get, so you'll put in twice as many hours and

- Executives are the most toxic group of people I’ve ever met. They run the place with fear, and high school pettiness - the HR department is absolutely mediocre The director is a horrible human being who does thing that are extremely unprofessional to try to keep talent from leaving/ruin future opportunities - there is a lack of managerial support - they diversity wash everything. None of the execs actually care about the employees, the company culture or the way they are perceived - the CEO is the absolute worst. I only have good things to say about 1 of the people in the leadership team, simply because she was the least bad one - no opportunity for growth -extremely overworked, highly underpaid. No one will recognize your good work - H.R. offers no support, no training tools