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Ottaway Communications Reviews

2.6

38% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)

Bob Ottaway

36% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

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14 reviews
5.0
6 Sept 2025
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Pros

Bob is a great mentor with an incredible wealth of knowledge. He gave me an opportunity and guided me through the ins and outs of agency life. It’s a small but mighty team where you’re encouraged to bring your best every day. If you want to be challenged, grow quickly, and gain valuable real-world experience, this is the place.

Cons

The pace can be demanding and the responsibilities are significant, but that’s also what makes the role rewarding. After just a few months, you’ll be amazed at how much you’ve learned and how far you’ve come.

1.0
16 Dec 2023
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Pros

Leaving after listening to the CEO micro manage even though he hates micromanaging.

Cons

The CEO. Money hungry and sad. Chases down opportunity only to overload 2 account managers with 50 clients, then gets mad over freelancer work being paid out correctly for being too much, then changing that, and then icing on the cake is having no concept of how much work can go into a client, only to recommend copy/pasting content and changing it up a little.

1.0
8 Dec 2022
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Pros

Leaving and crying out your frustrations on the way home.

Cons

While I enjoyed almost everyone there, Bob was my biggest reason for leaving. Not to mention the lack of formal training, having too few people for so many clients, and the lack of management skills that turned into micromanaging and complaining about micromanaging, all of which had me on the brink of mental health breakdowns daily. It seems promising on paper, but they are still making this job sound more writing-focused, which is why I went for it. I was told soon on to just copy and "rewrite" previous work even though it should be all original per client. This job is just having Bob tell you to drop your gameplan to do a bunch of work for one client and then get yelled at because you have done nothing for another client. I would get feedback on my writing to then correct the work, and then when starting a new assignment use the feedback from the previous one to only then be told it was wrong. It was nonsense to even be proud of my work, and I don't even include it in any writing samples or previous work. This is the only job that has ever pushed me to the point of quitting without notice once I landed a new job, and I honestly wouldn't have ever taken the job if I knew how horrible it was going to be.

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