It's what you make of it - Anonymous employee Orchard Advertising Employee Review

Super friendly atmosphere, with mostly everyone treating even interns as equals, allowing them to participate in brainstorming sessions and client briefs. There is no obvious hierarchy that is present - in fact, some people were so friendly to me and I found out weeks later that they were actually at very high positions in the company. Also, if you've got a good idea, they love to hear it and encourage you to pursue it! Another pro - the office space is lovely and conducive to creativity

While there's no obvious hierarchy, the environment can get too gossip-y and dramatic at times. Also, there is often a lack of follow-through on many things, which can get stuck, e.g. a website that hasn't been updated in about 2 years, despite many complaints. Additionally, as an intern, you need to constantly ask for work and hope you are taken seriously at times - otherwise you'll end up bored in the corner!

(This review is for Leo Burnett Orchard Bangalore. It's Orchard advertising only, but taken over by Leo Burnett and hasn't updated its glassdoor.) At least my experience has been really bad. I mean thanks to this place, I've realised what I do not want to do, and I'm grateful this place taught me that, but that is the only upside I can see from having worked here.

Working here, you won't be working for a company, you'll be working for an institution. And if you haven't felt insignificant before, joining an institution is definitely gonna help with that. It feels like a sad corporate gig where you're helping someone else's dreams come to life, but you don't know who exactly, because the hierarchies go all the way up. The work life balance doesn't exist, you'll work on weekends, late nights and while you're doing that there's also a lot of internal politics. People are weird, they work like machines. And the new creative head who's recently joined sounds like a broken record saying "let's do something mad" on repeat, with zero plan of how to get there and does his job very well, if his job entailed rejecting ideas with feedback of "hmm". The company clearly only cares for the clients, while overworking their employees. (My colleague got thrashed for standing up for the team and saying no to the client, when the client came with work on the weekend.) The company culture from what I've experienced is horrible. But then again you could have a completely different experience from what I've had. To each their own.