Essence Reviews

3.8

77% would recommend to a friend

(641 total reviews)

Kyoko Matsushita

89% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Essence has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 641 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Essence employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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641 reviews
2.0
11 May 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible timings is the best Salary on time is the only motivation

Cons

Essence has grown rapidly,however the culture has gone down tremendously due to the following reasons: 1. Favoritism is shown in front of your face without any fear. 2. Operational Expertise is clearly missing as the complete management is run by those who never worked in operations. 3. Decisions are made on assumptions, even no data is maintained for quarterly review(Reflektive). 4. KRA's were not defined till Oct 2019(after 1.5 years of process establishment), and after that till date hardly anyone is following those KRA's. 5. Poor communication from senior management - most of the things we are informed through verbal communication(not on email) to us, which leads to multiple back and forth to close the conversation. That's not all, list is too long.

1.0
7 Apr 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Overall friendly environment depends on which team you are in

Cons

Don't get me started on this: pathetic senior management unnecessarily disgusting politics unfair bias towards the favorites Little to learn

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Essence Response
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It's disheartening to read your feedback; it sounds like you had a challenging experience. We would appreciate the opportunity to explore this with you if you're open to it. Please reach out to listening@essenceglobal.com for a confidential discussion.
2.0
13 Aug 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The general agency pros common to every other media agency

Cons

I have had a really bad experience not with respect to the learning but with the flow of work that they have. You have to literally be behind the seniors( sad to say people from elite management institutes )all the time to tell you what, why and how and even then you will only get 20% of your answers or you might get nothing solved at all. Being a newbie, you really face a lot of challenges since you are always treated as an outsider when you are new no matter how much you are willing to contribute and work hard.

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