Grey Group Reviews

Where to begin. First, if you look at the history of reviews on this site, it's all one star reviews, five years of silence, and then all of a sudden a ton of four and five star reviews start popping up. That was when management assigned the staff to write positive reviews at one of the town hall meetings. "The Best in the West"? "On the Rise!"? Pure astroturf. Seriously, guys, your brief is showing. I especially like how all the "cons" aren't really cons at all. Like when a interviewer asks you to name one of your flaws, and you say "sometimes I work too hard." You know, humble bragging BS. Here's the truth. The president is in way over his head and is a terrible leader. He's the kind of guy who so desperately wants to be cool, but never was and never will be. Thinks he knows creative but doesn't. How bad of a leader is he? He thought having fake reviews for his agency would be a good idea. And he met Curt Detweiler, and then still hired him. The CCO (Curt) is a hack who has failed upward his whole career, surviving on bluster and force of personality alone. HIs reputation is garbage. You know how some people are difficult personalities, but you can usually find someone who likes them? I have yet to meet the person who knows Curt and likes him. As long as those two are in charge, nothing good will happen there.

Sweat shop. Hours. No weekends. No holidays. Pitch. Pitch. Pitch. Need to request weekends off. On call at all hours. Zero work life balance. Only CDs go on shoots. Lots of work, little of that gets produced. Too busy to enjoy events. Thankless Agency. Greys pros, are completely overshadowed by its cons. Work life balance does not exist here. You are expected to work all hours of the night, most weekends, during holidays, and even during your vacation. Want to watch the Super Bowl? Don’t worry they’ll turn it on in a conference room. Mom dieing in the hospital, she can wait. Vacation booked? Sure your wife and kids can go but they’ll pay for you to cancel last minute. Have something planned for the weekend? Better request off a week or more in advance. Agency event? Expect to watch others party while you work. Sick? Well that shouldn’t stop you from answering emails and working from home. Cut whatever pay they offer you in half. Because you’ll be working upwards of 60 - 80 hour weeks. Plus holidays. Think I’m joking? I worked 3 weeks straight once without a single day off and pulled upwards of 85 hours during a 5 day period. Expect to barely use your PTO or vacation time. And if they are nice enough to let you. Expect to make up for any days you took off during the weekends, Christmas, vacation. I kept track my last year there. All the days I took off, I ended up reworking. Good brief on your desk. Expect to work on it while pitching multiple other clients at the same time. And pitches are expected to take precedent. That means more work, less produced work. Clients have been known to complain that their accounts are not getting the attention needed. They’ve even asked for people working on their accounts to not be involved in pitches at the same time. Got a great idea? Client loves it. There’s a shoot. Don’t expect to go. Why? Because there are 5 CDs above you who all think that idea is part theirs and they already booked a plane ticket for them and their wives. No room left in the budget for the person who put all the time into coming up with the idea. Sorry maybe next time. Oh and don’t even expect to get credit for your ideas. By the time things are ready to be produced they’ve already forgotten your name. Hell do you even have a name? Pretty sure you’re just a number.