Response Mine Interactive Reviews

Too often, the same entry-mid level employees who enjoyed the pay bumps, opportunities to rise to senior manager-executive level positions and work-life balance aren't equipped with the proper managerial training and years in the workforce to deal with the inevitable cons of working in a more entrepreneurial environment. Response Mine Interactive encourages recruiting junior level talent and training them up. While this has the benefit of teaching people the right (albeit at times more mechanical "old school") ways of running digital media- it leaves the agency with a bunch of employees who know Response Mine as their first and only job. Once the excitement and allure of working for an agency wear off, RMI's executive and management teams have to deal with managing employees who get frustrated by the same things that make them stay at RMI- and that make RMI one of the only agencies in Atlanta where mid-executive level management have been with the agency for 7+ years. It's difficult to manage expectations for employees who haven't been at another job to have something to compare it to, and the executive and management team don't focus enough on leadership training, employee development, coaching and team-building to work through some of these issues. The agency also waits too long to recognize when a department needs more assistance, attention or investment to make it successful. As a former employee, it was nice to know my word was taken seriously and listened to, but I'd challenge the management team to hold employees more accountable to their goals and step in sooner to provide additional resources or investments when a department or initiative isn't working.

-Extremely cliquey. -If you join as an associate, the 6 month time line means nothing. They will pay you basically minimum wage to do full time work and try to convince you to work 40 hrs with no benefits. The 6 months can easily turn into 7 or 10, which sucks when you are only making $10/hr and have an ineffective manager who refuses to tell you whether they want to hire you full time even after acknowledging that their crappy management is what caused your negative performance. What a waste of time. -Gossip everywhere, even amongst managers. NOTHING is confidential -Lack of training and lack of experience managers who are effective trainers. You will be repeatedly and publicly condescended for asking for clarification on new projects. Tons of miscommunication. - Honestly felt like I was much smarter than many of the people that were supposed to be "managing" me, which makes it hard to respect your managers, especially when they don't own up to their mistakes. -The personality types on the media side can be summed up as caricatures of MTV who don't have any depth & have loud conversations about BS like celebrity news & socail media while you are trying concentrate to produce quality work. -Complete Bro/fratty/sorority vibe, at least on the media side -There are dogs running around everywhere and barking frequently. The loud random conversations make it hard to concentrate and there are no side rooms that you can go to for concentration (they only have 3 conference rooms which are almost always booked) -They act as if alcohol should be the highlight of the employee experience (this is coming from someone who actually drinks). They have regular in-office alcohol-fueled events and expect you to go, stay the whole time for "comradery," and then work late to finish the things you could've been doing instead of going to these forced bonding events. -Low pay. I'm making substantially more elsewhere doing much less than what I was doing at RMI