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GCI Health

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GCI Health Reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(177 total reviews)
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Kristin Cahill

71% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

GCI Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 177 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GCI Health 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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177 reviews
1.0
1 Jan 2024

BEWARE

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- There are a few gems of talented kind people here (A FEW)

Cons

- not a safe space for BIPOC, please take care of your mental health and be cautious because you will experience bias and be gaslit to believe it’s normal - Management style includes passive aggressively destroying your confidence in your own abilities to stifle your growth - Huge wave of “silent layoffs” based on sorority girl politics. They do it via unfair use of PIPs and fear-mongering to push people to agree to quit with horrible severance - Junior staff burnt out and expected to pull everyone’s weight with no support (likely because they are cheaper to bill) - Gossip culture, two-faced culture, no team harmony or camaraderie very dog eat dog, ruthlessly throwing people under the bus, even distorting truths about others - Promotions based on favoritism and not merit - The micromanagement style is suffocating and can completely destroy your self-confidence as a professional - Prioritization of 100% billable hours (managers will interrogate and scrutinize) over quality of work, growth of employees - Be expected to work overtime and weekends with no compensation, appreciation or recognition - DEI efforts are a facade, powered by the ERG group (that does DEI work UNPAID) instead of an actual DEI department (which is really just one person) - Working here wrecked my mental health and confidence, the bias I experienced here traumatized me and I only hope to recover eventually

1.0
3 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Competitive salary and benefits, some smart people

Cons

Failing agency with terrible leadership. Take a look at the negative reviews here - they all say basically the same thing: the CEO has created a toxic environment rife with favoritism, cattiness and zero work life balance. It wasn’t always like this but when leadership changed at GCI a couple of years ago the agency began its decline. Everyone is miserable and it’s very common to find yourself consoling a sobbing colleague who’s hit their breaking point. There is no room for creativity or original thinking - the CEO is a pathological Type A and you either get in line or they bully you out. Note how most of the recent positive reviews here are from senior leaders? That’s because they were commanded to come here and attempt to drown out the negative feedback. Nobody here is happy - literally nobody. Look elsewhere.

1.0
19 Dec 2023

Dangerously Toxic

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Higher salaries, decent benefits, remote work, part of WPP.

Cons

If you must have a full time job and this is your only choice, proceed with caution and keep your LinkedIn profile updated. This agency has elements of a high control group, including: - Leadership does not value the psychological safety, perspectives and meaningful participation of employees - CEO is elitist, self-centered and dogmatic to the point where waiting for/anticipating her feedback creates a barrier to workflow and quality outputs - Criticism is forbidden and any critical thinking is characterized as "negative" - Deception is the norm, with leadership and management deliberately withholding or distorting information - Employees are made to feel that problems are always their fault, never the CEO's or the agency’s fault - They manage by instilling fear, including "secret" layoffs and abusive/inappropriate use of PIPs - Inexperienced/under-qualified "inner circle" of the CEO are elevated to executive positions while unrealistic demands are placed on everyone else - Vastly inflated view of the agency's competitiveness and preeminence - Antiquated tastes and views on culture / ignorance of modern agency practices due to leaders who have spent their entire 15+ year careers at the agency

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