The One Off Reviews

2.9

44% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

54% positive business outlook

The One Off has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 20 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there.

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20 reviews
1.0
20 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get good equipment and a coffee machine

Cons

The management is only concerned with pleasing the clients and taking credit for the long hours you work. I’ve never worked at a place that the the directors and managers just use the lower staff so much and take credit. The only reason this agency is still making money is because they get good designers in the door, take credit for their great work and pass it off as the creative directors ideas. Most of the good people there have left and set up on their own as they got fed up being used. The culture is a clicky one and full of directors with no talent who just take advantage of more talented lower staff.

3.0
4 Apr 2024

Room for improvement

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- People are lovely - Office is a really nice, bright space / working environment - Coffee machine and amazing once-weekly lunches - Great equipment and desk set up - Gym membership is a great perk - Lots of talented people

Cons

- Extremely low starting salaries, junior salary is pretty much impossible to live on in London. For a company that purports to have a strong culture and people-first ethos, they actually pay junior employees less than the London living wage. When I brought this up I was ignored. - The idea of ‘Do good, feel good’ is a bit of a farce unfortunately. Very few of the projects that they take on involve any notion of doing good for the world, which leaves a lot of the team feeling uninspired. - Working hours were 9-6pm everyday which feels unnecessarily long. These were never adjusted / reconsidered, even when there wasn’t a lot of work on. Beyond that there is a culture of working late and people will often feel awkward for leaving on time. - Upper management can be quite rude, completely ignoring Teams messages and emails from junior team members. - Serious lack of diversity across both studios. - Redundancies were poorly managed, the process taking a few months and causing a lot of people unnecessary stress. Also their second round of redundancies within a few years.

2.0
28 Oct 2021

Favouritism and Micro management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Studio lunches on Fridays - Summer and Christmas parties - Graduate schemes available - a team very talented people

Cons

- Preferential treatment given to the main studio -Serious lack of diversity across both of the studios - A lot of micromanagement and working overtime is celebrated - Management have their favourite members of staff leaving others overlooked and patronised - A lot of dated view points towards internal and external practises with an unwillingness to adapt and change

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