We. Communications Reviews

Run, do not walk, away from this place. Do not pass go, do not collect $100, do not apply here for your own wellbeing and sanity. -Compensation: Almost unlivable. -Management: Completely inept. In a company-wide meeting about drumming up new business, admitted they had no plan to actually do that. No one is trained and feedback is all over the place. I would win agency wide awards one day and the next day hear that my team was thinking about canning me for no apparent reason (see Mean Girl culture below). -Micromanagement: My boss had to "check over" all my emails, even if they were going just to an internal team. Literally the guy would not give up control to let me do anything. Just weird. -Overwork: When I left, they replaced me with 4 interns. So, I was doing the work of four people for about 10k more than the federal poverty level. Awesome! -Mean Girl Culture: It's a thing. If you aren't a mean girl (or aren't liked by them), you will never progress. Work ethic, actual doing of good work, etc is basically meaningless here. Hope you like sadism! -High Rate of Turnover: If someone survives longer than 2 years here, they have either carved out a niche by being a SME on something and agggressively not teaching that skill to anyone else, or they are in favor with a mean girl. I worked here for just a year and almost 3/4ths of the people I worked with were gone 6-8 months after I left. -Unethical: Product developed to provide customer insights did not work, was asked to lie to cover up this fact. -Not Educated on Products: You'd think that if you are doing PR on technical products, you could actually explain things about the products themselves...there is so much emphasis on looking good and spinning here that employees lack the ability to explain the technology they are pitching. Embarrassing, frankly, for both MSFT and WE.

Up until 2010, I said one of the best parts of WE was how much the leadership team cared about the people who worked there. I can't say that anymore. WE turned into a typical churn and burn PR shop. Politics increased and execs would regularly throw lower level team members under the bus to save themselves in front of clients. With the current group of execs, it has turned more into a Mean Girls society and either you're a golden child or you're thrown out - and this could change in an instant without any communication. So many of my peers were scapegoats and were either pushed out or they simply quit without even having another job because they couldn't take it there anymore.