You think it's a dream job, and then... - Office Director Skirt PR Employee Review

2.0
16 Sept 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Everyone is great at their job, and has great ideas. Higher-ups get to travel a lot (although it's hectic). Exposure to well-known clients. The Vice President, Lauren, is a diamond in the rough for sure.

Cons

The majority of the employees are very nice and are genuinely helpful, but there is a culture of competitiveness in a non-healthy way. Too many "Reply All" emails are sent to incriminate or to appear falsely congratulatory when they are really meant to show the president that you are responding as expected to a message or event. Interns are sometimes extremely busy, and are sometimes in the office spinning their wheels for hours on end. Everyone is walking on proverbial eggshells around each other, and "fake" is the general vibe of the office--for lack of a more eloquent word. Personal preference of the president takes precedence over literally everything else, so if you are creative-minded and sometimes like to respectively have your own opinion and not be a sheep, you will be sorely disappointed. It's very obvious that the president is highly skilled, innovative, and well-connected, but her candor with those below her is disingenuous. I have talked with many past employees--of varying positions and lengths of employment--and all wonder why they stayed as long as they did. Plain and simply, the pay is not enough to put up with the cultural constraints and inevitably tense environment.

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5.0
10 Jun 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Collaborative team, amazing founder and CEO who champions women. One of the best career experiences but I had to move from the city.

Cons

Very few cons for the agency but it’s tough to grow professionally since it’s a small company.

3.0
3 Dec 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I worked at Skirt PR for the winter internship. My favorite part about the internship was the final internship project. It was a hypothetical lifestyle/fashion brand client where I created a full-year PR plan. The project was something I referenced in multiple interviews when applying for full-time positions post-graduation.

Cons

There isn't much room to grow with the company (unless you get lucky and someone leaves right as you are finishing your internship). A lot of the days I found myself not having much to do and even offered to help out the other interns with their work. The office itself is beautifully decorated and fun but I found the office culture to be a little boring - there was always light music to fill the silence because people preferred to send emails or chat messages rather than talking in person. I felt ignored many times as the rest of the office would meet in the conference room for different services from their clients or birthday/farewell celebrations and the interns would not be invited. After sending along work or projects there wasn't much feedback given from my manager other than a quick "thank you."

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