idfive Reviews

There's a lot of talk about culture and only working with clients that want to do good in the world. The reality is this far from the truth. The culture consists of forced social activities often after work or on weekends. On the rare chance that an event is held during work hours it is held over employees where they're told they should be grateful. Even going as far as to say exactly how much money the company is losing for you to be there and how much the event cost. Another big part of the culture is that there is no room for "egos" but this seems to only apply to select employees and to management. Another key saying is "there's no such this as this isn't my job", while this sounds good it is used to take advantage of employees who feel that they cannot say no to work or say that they're busy resulting in unbearable work loads. As far as clients go there are some that do good but over the past year it has become about the money. The idea of looking before you leap does not exists with new clients continually being added without thought on how to manage the business, whose going to manage the business, or if it's a good idea in the first place. This also results in less than transparent business practices. Based on the way that the company holds everything over it's employees, guilts them when they speak up, and squeezes employees to always do more it is apparent that the companies priorities are not it's employees. There is no HR and conflicts of interest within the company with the CEO married to another employee that has been promoted rapidly (he met while working together as CEO and partial owner). There is little to no room to address any issues within the company nor does there seem to be anyone properly trained to do so. I would highly suggest this as the CEO company often makes very inappropriate jokes in very public venues. With all of this said and you end working with this company you'll be told that the high turnover is either because people cannot hack it, they don't want to good, or they couldn't handle the restructuring.

+high deductible health plan that is impossible to fulfill +no retirement contributions (they say that people put their bonuses there but bonuses have never been more than $1000 and bonuses should be able to be just that, a bonus.) +egos really are here, especially amongst the mid-level and some (not all) leadership. it's kind of unbelievable that their motto is that there isn't +no POC in leadership, save the CEO who has been quoted in articles with poor opinions on diversity. He thinks the solution to diversity is to "hire the best people." But that's a naive opinion. + diversity seems to benefit white women the most here +need for non-strategic transparency + most of the creative team has been there for a year or less because of the company losing close to their whole team +many people don't take real lunch breaks because they feel like they can't +all or nothing work attitude that is unhealthy and unfair +office atmosphere is often very quiet and leaves no room for the occasional convo or non-work-related banter +HR person is rarely in the office and often defers questions to other people +the CEO tends to guilt people a lot. There's a lot of public shaming and when someone leaves he takes it very personally. He often hints at those people (after they've left) not having the chops to work at the company, when we all need to look at how we are as a workplace. He seems to think that advertising is the only way to do good in the world. And that to go elsewhere means you don't want to make a difference. +CEO panders and makes inappropriate jokes. + the CEO admitted that there as never been a diversity/bias or sexual harassment training at the company since it's existence. it seems they plan to change that though, so that's good. +overall the benefits and perks really aren't impressive compared to other agencies. you hear about snacks always being in the office, gym memberships, amble PTO, WFH Friday and other fun perks at competitors, but those don't exist at idfive. They did just get dogs in their lease, so that's nice. +some people seem to be able to get away with doing subpar work or consistently missing deadlines/being a pain