Thrive Digital Reviews

Unfortunately over the last year, lots of people have left and more than ever, there’s a ton of work being pushed on people. Very little support is provided to improve workloads. When brought to management, I was told that I must’ve been inefficient, or just not working. It appears that upper management thinks people just aren’t spending their time efficiently. We’re not robots, and they’re not willing to take accountability to giving people too many projects. People promoted to team lead positions have very little management training. When being promoted, you don’t get a salary increase right away. This is usually 3-6 months after. Giving people more responsibilities with no change is pay isn’t really ethical. Thrive talks a lot about mental health well-being and providing well-being days. However when I brought up my mental health issues, i felt like it was ultimately brushed off and no changes were made. There needs to be better training with managers to have these conversations so people who are vulnerable don’t feel skirted over.

No Promotion Opportunities: Don’t come here to get promoted or make money, come here to learn. Trying to get promoted is a part-time job itself. If you don’t play corporate games, you will forever stay in a junior PMS position, even if it’s been two years and you fully and successfully manage multiple clients. You will literally be training new management hired externally, but make less money than they do. Your promotion depends on checking off all the checkboxes on the list even if it doesn’t make sense. The list is the same for everyone, while the clients aren’t. It also depends on your team and if they celebrate you or bring you down. Workload: no one will ever demand you to stay after 5 pm, but management will gaslight you into thinking your workload is smaller than you think. Meaning, today it’s “please leave at 5 pm and no later”, tomorrow it’s “let’s talk why this task takes you two hours when it should take one” (while it really does take two hours). Burnout: the burnout rates are high, the company will squeeze 150% out of you. Many people say it’s even worse in other agencies, so pick your poison here. Clients: at a certain point your entire day will rotate around scrutinized reporting and micromanaged client calls. You will barely find time to work on the ads, accounts and strategies, your focus will solely be on squeezing some work time between client calls, so that you have something to report on weekly. Unless you enjoy it, that’s usually the time to get a new job.