Run in the opposite direction, save your career, do not join AKQA Gurgaon. - Anonymous employee AKQA Employee Review

1.0
23 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

No pros, only cons here.

Cons

From my experience: Its a small company where management treats empolyees like cheap labour. No employee respect. There is poor resourcing and planning. They will put you in any project irrespective of your skillset as projects are limited. Planning and scoping is virtually absent and its done so as to satisfy the onshore management. Too much interference of management in work planning. Work pressure and timelines are too tight, they will start questioning and try to put blame on employee is any delay happens (which is bound to happen as work is mostly under scoped and under planned). Many leads often adopt this strategy here so as to protect themselves and make themselves visible in good books of management. No growth opportunities, too much favourism given by management to a handful of such leads. Their counterparts in other geographies often look down upon employees here as being inferior.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

Design and Strategy teams on the west coast in 2021-2023 incredibly smart and strong in their craft. Overall it is hard not to be impressed with the output and some of what the brand can produce

Cons

NY and DC teams were unpleasant. Competitive fearful vibe compared to other creative and tech industries I have been in. My guess is because everything is based on what accounts and projects they can capture and during this time tech accounts were pulling out of further business as their markets slowed. WPP (the parent company) began lay offs and shuttered whole agencies exasperating this.

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