Good People Sitting on a House of Cards - Anonymous employee Jellyfish Employee Review

3.0
1 Apr 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Most everyone is generally great to work with, passionate, low-ego and good at what they do - Flexible work policy: office time encouraged but not mandatory - Great roster of clients made up some of the world's most notable brands - All the ingredients for a great organization, but .... some critical flaws

Cons

- Leadership mistrust: constantly painting rosy picture when real outlook is bleak (e.g. thin new biz pipeline, cash flow issues, etc.) - Extremely inept financial operations / systems with constant promises of improvement & stability, yet never seemingly gets better - Lack of dedicated growth and big new business wins - Lack of integration across service offerings (e.g. media, creative, research) with right and left hands rarely aligning - Constant layoffs and outsourcing (though they won't call it that) of U.S.-based roles to Mexico and India as a means to make up for the financial P&L flaws - All of the above results in the best resources being stretched far too thin, minimal/no opportunities for earnings increases, and a very unstable future for the orginzation.

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Jellyfish Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. Many of the issues you note come down to how disruptive change can be. We are doing our best to adapt an evolving Jellyfish to an evolving industry, and that does lead to some issues which we are doing our best to traverse with as little disruption as possible. It’s unclear from your review if you are a current or former employee - either way we would encourage you to reach out to a member of our People Team to discuss further, as there is only so much we can say or do within the confines of Glassdoor. In any case, we will take your feedback onboard.

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Cons

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