Team One Reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(190 total reviews)

Julie Michael

97% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Team One has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 190 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Team One 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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190 reviews
2.0
12 Jul 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Solid benefits for a vanilla life - great work life 9-to-6 balance for those who are mid to senior level in their career and want to see their kids actually grow up. Summer days off. The company offers inspiring speakers, parties and events throughout the beautiful spacious office. Dogs are your co-workers. Enough candy, free food and snacks to sustain any millennial on a budget. Nearby gym, good standard medical coverage, FSA and 401k.

Cons

Nothing new under the advertising sun - if you want to try really hard to devolve into career mediocrity, this is the place to be. Outdated production/delivery practices coupled with people who've never grown from advertising in the 90s live at this office, and any innovation is hard to come by against the "process, process, process" that's in place and their main conservative automotive client. Office politics can be backstabbing, recognitions are with the in-crowd at best, and frustrations mount over delivery issues that can be solved with this nice little tool called JIRA, which most people tragically find 'new'. There are some rock stars in the crowd (around~5) who innovate and try to push the envelope, mostly in tech and UX. Alas, 90% of the time that fails, and most people devolve into pushing the cart along the rails. Having moved on to the client side, it's sad to see an agency - which is supposed to be the source of creativity and innovation, carry out such outdated practices, and be so out of touch with reality that they give their client everything but what they actually asked for. Team One needs to poke its head out and get outside of itself to witness the world is evolving a lot faster than they can keep up. But who cares when you're comfortable. Unfortunately, they are too distracted by their summer parties and keeping the veneer of "awesomeness" on the store front to bright-eyed millennials. When the idea of free food in the kitchen gets old, it's time to move on.

1.0
29 Apr 2016

Team None

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Insanely easy hours, very solid work/life balance. Pretty offices, decent pay. No one breaks a sweat.

Cons

So uncreative, it's where beige goes to die. The most boring, unoriginal agency imaginable. The creative is phoned in, from 2002. They put more effort and imagination into winning "best place to work" surveys than they've ever put into their actual work. The survey is like "1984," where every single employee is forced to submit a (totally positive) survey with a blind copy to HR; you are chased down until you do your survey and they expect to see every response before it's sent. Most of the non-creatives work on PCs (hello, 1996 called and they'd like their technology back) and the agency treats freelance staff as second-class citizens. They have more procedures than Mass General and everything is a process but nothing ever actually gets done. All in all, a fake, phony, shallow cess pool of ego and entitlement.

1.0
7 Jul 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great PTO, Nice office, Dog friendly, good benefits, In the heart of Silicon Beach. Close to the beach, beer and cake on Fridays. Departmental free lunches from time to time and agency lunches as well. Good work life balance. Nice 401K and medical package.

Cons

This place is an absolute mess! Management is psychotic and backstabbing. You have to do things their way even if it is WRONG and BEYOND stupid. You'll probably only work with Lexus, who absolutely hates Team One and often says it. The biggest Anti Team One -ism from the Lexus client is "Team One always over promises and under delivers." True statement. The work is absolutely terrible and they can't even win any new business. Team One couldn't sell cleaning supplies to a maid. It's a very controlled environment. You are not allowed to be creative or float any creative ideas. The atmosphere at Team One reminds me of the Metallica Song "Eye of the Beholder". here are the lyrics to said song: Do you see what I see? Truth is an offence Your silence for your confidence Do you hear what I hear? Doors are slamming shut Limit your imagination, keep you where they must Do you feel what I feel? Bittering distress Who decides what you express? Do you take what I take? Endurance is the word Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd Doesn’t matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it’s done just how I say Independence limited Freedom of choice Choice is made for you, my friend Freedom of speech Speech is words that they will bend Freedom with their exception Do you fear what I fear? Living properly Truths to you are lies to me Do you choose what I choose? More alternatives Energy derives from both the plus and negative Do you need what I need? Boundaries overthrown Look inside, to each his own Do you trust what I trust? Me, myself and I Penetrate the smoke screen, I see through the selfish lie Doesn’t matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it’s done just how I say Independence limited Freedom of choice Choice is made for you, my friend Freedom of speech Speech is words that they will bend Freedom with their exception Do you know what I know? Your money and your wealth Your silence just to hear yourself Do you want what I want? Desire not a thing I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom’s ring Doesn’t matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it’s done just how I say Independence limited Freedom of choice Choice is made for you, my friend Freedom of speech Speech is words that they will bend Freedom no longer frees you Doesn’t matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it’s done just how I say

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