It's the Worst. Leaving TMP was the best change of the year. - Account Director Radancy Employee Review

1.0
24 Nov 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good location and nice people that work there.

Cons

The TMP Chicago office is a revolving door for talent with major problems that start from the leadership-down to create a toxic work culture. In my first months there, it was odd to find so many employees in many departments openly joke about who will be “here today and gone tomorrow” and this is not because it’s so advanced, but because it’s so inefficient. I read on an employment site before starting that they regularly announce to their current employees to write good reviews and I also witnessed this being true when I got there. They have to make current employees write good reviews to counter all the negative experiences they’ve created. To someone switching over with tenured Consumer side experience, it’s important to know that you will not be set up for success at TMP. The "career pathing" idea they sell is total baloney and the old playbook of Recruitment Marketing and those who were working on it since the 90s shut out growth because they’ve either never been at a modern agency to see the gaps or they fight being “too much” on an agency model or they just don’t care because they are VPs in constant sales mode of TalentBrew. What a shock to find that they appear like an agency but lack all the necessary processes and offer little support to employees working at all hours to make up the difference. There literally were people who went to the hospital from work-related stress issues and when they returned nothing changed for them so they left. Even on their largest accounts it was a constant struggle to try and keep clients. The VP roles are overselling constantly and there aren’t enough people to cover the work. It’s not uncommon for Accounts to cycle through 5+ people in 6 months. Work is undervalued and there is a tragic lack of diversity in leadership which only perpetuates the culture problems. It’s required to play into the fraternity that is encouraged by the office leader as they would openly make fun of employees in staff meetings regularly and didn’t take action when complaints were filed. If you are trying to come from a decent company you should avoid this place because there is no 401k match, no actual support, lots of drama and because of these it is the bottom of the barrel.

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5.0
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Pros

Great place to grow, flexible with family matters and a good work life balance. Learned a lot. Flexible time off is a good perk.

Cons

The rebrand removed a lot of personality from the company which made it hard to service legacy clients.

2.0
17 May 2026
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Pros

The people and direct coworkers were genuinely supportive and collaborative. Many employees were dealing with similar challenges, which created a strong sense of teamwork and willingness to help each other. Despite broader organizational issues, most teams worked hard and tried to support one another however they could.

Cons

Leadership doesn’t seem to have a clear direction for the company, so priorities and decisions were constantly changing. A lot of decisions would get made and then completely reversed a few months later, which made it hard to feel confident in anything long term. There were also a lot of staffing and restructuring changes without proper training or support, so people were basically expected to figure things out as they went. The company became very focused on enforcing in-office policies and making sure people were physically at their desks, while employees hadn’t received raises in years despite heavier workloads and inflation. That disconnect was really discouraging and definitely contributed to burnout. Burnout was something constantly talked about across teams, but it rarely felt like anything meaningful was done to actually support employees or improve workloads. A lot of employees were also expected to sell or support products they didn’t fully believe in, which made it hard to feel set up for success from the beginning.

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