DDB Reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(913 total reviews)

Alex Lubar

63% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

DDB has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 913 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DDB 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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913 reviews
1.0
1 Dec 2016

Account Executive

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Pros

Great portfolio of clients and good name to have on your resume

Cons

The particular account I was on was run by an adult bully. She also had minions that followed her around that helped spread nonsense and created a toxic work environment. Be careful and ask a lot of questions during your interview. The account just happened to have ALOT of turnover when I joined...now I know to see that as a red flag.

2.0
5 Aug 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Big agency, big clients, big budgets - Have the ability to recruit top talent, if they stick around, so the team can be great depending on where you're coming in - International agency so often has access to unique enterprise-level resources - Canadian agencies specifically tend to collaborate on national projects

Cons

- Ruthless culture that isn't responsive to heavy, unsustainable workloads - Overtime isn't compensated for or even really acknowledged, the workload is simply dumped down from management and the people doing the work are expected to just deal with it - When workload issues are expressed, the blame is turned around on the employee for not dealing with it sooner before it became unsustainable - If you're keen and take on work outside of your role, you will be exploited, take on far too much work and responsibility, and then won't be offered new opportunities since you've shown that you'll do the work within your current role - For new/emerging departments, there's no real structure or path forward, so management has the ability to claim it's a "flat" organizational structure while still holding people at different levels for arbitrary differences in experience levels. - Generally favours older employees that have families as they're seen as more reliable and relatable. There's a clear differentiation to how management speaks to those people versus younger employees that are getting established, where they'll generally be more hostile and aggressive toward younger employees. - Generally out-of-touch management style and culture that might've made sense decades ago, but hasn't been updated for the 21st century. And the turnover rate shows that.

2.0
1 Jun 2020
Recommend
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Pros

big budgets, well known clients, free PBJ sandwiches

Cons

no D&I initiatives, significant lack of POC throughout the agency and only 1 or 2 in leadership roles, lack of transparency, no culture, serious divide between strategy and creative.

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