Metia Reviews

Pros

People seem to get on well in London with a great office location and competitive salary/benefits. Good client base with interesting, strategic work. Opportunity to travel and work in other locations. Senior leadership are very knowledgeable and the founder clearly cares about the success of the company.

Cons

Very legalistic hierarchy e.g. Junior AE reports into AE. Provides a great opportunity for people to line-manage at an early age, but then leaves people with inexperienced managers. I joined at a turbulent time when lots of senior leadership had recently left which caused a management gap. Although I understand the new recent London MD has high approval ratings internally, which is great to hear. Also quite under-resourced internally which makes executing projects difficult.

Pros

Great location in Covent Garden

Cons

Great place for account managers. Terrible work environment for creatives. AMs get all the credit for creative work while they do nothing except set unrealistic expectations for clients. Bullying is rife.

Pros

- Strong set of clients - Opportunities to learn and grow - Collaborative team

Cons

Can’t think of any cons. Generally speaking a good company to work for.

Pros

Small company - everyone knows each other. you can come up with new and innovative ideas and push them

Cons

- high school kind of atmosphere - it doesn't matter how good you are or contribute to the company. All that matters is, how well you get on with the boss to get promoted or given better jobs. Really hard for family people to get recognized, as they don't have much time to join social drinking activities - that's where all the business happens. - managers and directors have their favorite kids (on the same low intellectual level) which get the best jobs - I wouldn't recommend this company to anyone having a wider horizon or comes from a good company. It is not the job what they sell it for.

Pros

Great location - the London office is on St Martin's Lane which is wonderful if youre into culture.

Cons

Metia only really has one client - Microsoft - which makes them complacent. They aren't interested in developing other clients. Creatives - designers, writers, etc aren't recognised for their work. All the praise, recognition etc goes to the client-facing person who licks the client's behind and emails your work to them.

Pros

Nice people - lots of great, creative work - strong proposition about integrated campaigns.

Cons

Not enough 'PR' work for a PR pro like me, and not a big enough management/sales focus to change that. Shame, because I enjoyed the work I did there, but there simply wasn't enough to sustain my role. Also, I think large clients like to see the capability for integrated campaigns but ultimately buy specialist agencies, where as small clients can't afford a large, multi-discipline, integrated campaign.

Pros

Laid back environment, great people, management has the foresight to change with the market. Lots of project to work on and work is always coming in

Cons

Can be a little quiet, sometimes difficult to integrate with other teams, more focused on junior staff. Although there is a lot of work, there's not a huge amount of variety.