Toaster reviews about "leadership"

- Leadership: where do I even begin? Cliquey, unorganized and unprofessional. They want things done their own way, which is typically a way that most people would think is backwards or illogical. They avoid confrontation at all costs, which means there's a lot of subtle passive aggressiveness or lackluster attempts at transparency. They are ill-equipped to run a US office even though they have been doing so for the past 7+ years. - The real leadership from London has never made any attempts to communicate with anyone that's not leadership in each of their branches. They also seem ill-equipped to run a company, from the little I've seen/heard of them. - Most importantly, they have a toxic relationship with most of their clients and (at the time of this review), do not employ strategists or account managers, meaning there is very little room to justify creative/strategic thinking. They prefer to maintain client relationships that consist of just doing what the client says and getting paid for it. - Very, very little room for growth within the company, mostly because it's so small. - If they try to sell you on "a company trip to Ibiza", it's a lie that will never, ever happen. Don't buy it.

The founders re-established themselves in the company in 2019 due to redundancies and poor business decisions. They took on roles that none of them were actually capable of doing - both from a lack of knowledge and intellect. They care more about profit than people and always will. The 'creative director/founder' is aggressive, uses his power for his own gain and treats people with an incredible lack of respect. There is a definite lack of vision and purpose in this agency, where senior management makes no effort to inspire or motivate their employees and those in power do nothing to help their colleagues. There is a lack of growth potential here due to the ways of working enforced by the founders, meaning that the ceiling is a lot lower than you might think. The work can be very monotonous with essentially having only Google and YouTube as clients, the potential for learning is limited. I loved working here until it all changed but please listen to me when I tell you to run as fast as you can in the other direction to this agency. You'll thank me one day.

HR only insulates and supports leadership and didn't secure the salary info of the entire staff in the SF branch. Nepotism in middle management hirings. Some employees are promoted to leadership roles despite having a known and HR documented reputation for making very unprofessional, prejudiced remarks to other employees. Not a lot of opportunity for growth. The culture can be cliquey to a fault sometimes. Low level drama resulting in lots of trash talking behind other people's backs.