A&R Creative Group Reviews

You will not be given a desk or a place to work. Working remote is ok, but then you will be scrutinized for working remotely. Complete lack of organization or accountability from management. Owners replace staff quickly and with no notice. Owners are hard to communicate with, and set unrealistic expectations in their heads without communicating what they need from you directly. Every assignment is listed as ASAP and URGENT because there is no project management. There are over a dozen brands in this company and none of the leads know what else is going on because there is no communication and no clear guidelines set. Everyone thinks they’re more important than following a procedure, so it’s impossible to have a solid work flow across company. It took me over a year to adjust to everyone’s different and specific needs because they will not unify. The job feels like someone dangling a carrot of possibilities in front of you while they expect more and more out of you and then give nothing in return but low pay and whack benefits. Cant pay their employees fair wages but will remodel all of their business and brag that they are bringing in profits during the pandemic... so why aren’t you paying your employees? There is no structure. Which sounds fun and exciting at first but it is not fun when there are already unrealistic deadlines for huge projects coming from all ends of the company. No pay, no computer, no parking, no desk, no accountability, no structure, no organization. It feels like working for a company who is pretending to be a company. They blame everyone else for their downfalls when really they need to improve communication and overall structure of the company - which won’t happen, so don’t get your hopes up that you can fix it.

Unrealistic workloads. Unrealistic expectations. In addition, A&R does not reimburse for work related travel or parking, but you are expected to be in office and travel among the restaurants. The office shares a parking lot with two of their concepts, which the parking lot is immediately full by 10am. You have two options, pay to park at the meters in two hour increments (which most often happens because vendor trucks, construction workers, and events, are frequently blocking off the "office lot". With their extremely low pay, this adds up quickly for employees. Option two, get blocked in their lot and retrieve your car at some point, hopefully you don't have a meeting you need to make on time. When you do make it in the office, you do not have a personal or specific work space provided for you. There is a single community table that fits about 4 people comfortably. That is also often full or a mess. Hard to focus office environment. Workflow is constantly interrupted by folks walking in and demanding urgent projects. Ownership refuses to hire additional support for necessary positions, and prefer to underpay their current employees as they absorb roles that have been let go. Be prepared to have your phone and emails on-call 24/7, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You get a 50% off discount on food from their restaurants. You can work remotely sometimes, but not without judgment from ownership.