Advance Local Reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(93 total reviews)
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Randy Siegel

47% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Advance Local has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 93 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Advance Local employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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93 reviews
1.0
27 Feb 2019

People Need to Matter

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Dynamic work environment. Training and resources for self-paced learnings. Marketing suite, advertising tools.

Cons

This culture isn't being nourished, and it isn't about people. Local executive team has lost confidence and trust because it actively vocalizes to its management team that people are expendable.

1.0
20 Jan 2021

Abusive Workplace

Recommend
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Pros

When cool projects come through, you can add some good clips to portfolio.

Cons

I worked at the New York office. Advance Local was the most abusive workplace of anywhere I've ever worked, before or since. The management structure was unclear. My direct manager, who had never managed before, sat directly behind me and seemed to watch my computer all day. She didn't have enough work for me to do, but got noticeably angry anytime I finished an assignment before EOD. She also got mad at me when any of the other higher ups assigned me work, which I didn't have any control over. Worst of all, another older employee, who wasn't anybody's manager but was in some sort of higher up position, would constantly assign me assistant tasks (like running around the city to pick things up for her) even though I was not an assistant in any capacity. If I had another project going on, she would literally yell at me and berate me, usually in public. It's worth noting that I'm autistic and was the youngest person in the office by a long shot. Only one person in the office ever stood up for me, and had I known better, Advance Local would have been wide open for a lawsuit based on the constant yelling and insults alone. Overall, this is a deeply abusive, ableist workplace where the management structure and mean, hateful employees ruin what could otherwise be a very cool job.

4.0
21 Mar 2017

Overall good place to work!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Innovative, flexible, good pay and benefits, invests in the company and employees

Cons

Not very diverse at senior management level.

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