Solid entry-level position for digital ads, but lacks growth-potential - Paid Social Ads Coordinator Social Kapture Employee Review

4.0
13 Apr 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Social Kapture has a fun, upbeat, and exciting company culture that is an absolute pleasure to be around. I love the flexibility of the hybrid work schedule. The upper management for the digital ads department was great to work under, always made my input feel valuable, never micro-managed me, and gave me the creative freedom to experiment in accounts as I saw fit. Annette and the rest of my co-workers were awesome to be around. The atmosphere was generally pleasant, and I never once felt any signs of office politics or drama. If you value company culture, inclusion, and atmosphere heavily, then I think you'd love Social Kapture.

Cons

Speaking for the paid ads department, the actual work itself gets repetitive FAST, especially considering there are so many client accounts that all generally require the same, cookie-cutter approach with templated ads and copy from the ad copy team. Low ad budgets combined with the limitations of Fair Housing and conversion tracking meant reporting on performance metrics like CPC and CTR and it was honestly hard to feel like I was having an impact on clients. Also, if your goal is to eventually move into some B2B/DTC performance marketing role, you may want to look elsewhere. You won't really be picking up on any skills that will translate to that type of role considering the limitations of Fair Housing and the vast differences in running ads for multi-family vs something like DTC eComm. This role really shines for someone with 0-1 year of experience with paid ads, looking for an entry-level position. If you've got more than that and you come from a performance marketing role, I'd skip this role.

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2.0
21 Dec 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of my coworkers were really great, and there were occasional events throughout the year.

Cons

Most people in the company are incredibly fake, and the ones who sucked up were rewarded over those who worked hard. Like I have a preeetty good idea about who the other people who left those prior reviews were. There is also absolutely no transparency or decency shown to anyone who isn't in management, so the rules can bend for managers but not anyone else. Managers would come and go as they pleased, work from home (pre-pandemic), etc. while normal workers were not allowed any flexibility from the typical 8-5 work day. There was also almost no opportunity to move up in the chain of command, and management would just promise title changes rather than real promotions or fair compensation. The second you'd ask for a raise, it felt like it was a personal attack that you weren't happy, and management would treat you worse. Overall, there was a complete lack of transparency, and everyone was basically just treated as different teams of workhorses. "Just do your work, shut up, and put on a smile" was something I actually overheard from management during my time there.

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