Good Experience, Not So Great Culture - Social Media Intern Skirt PR Employee Review

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

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

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.

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.