Pros
-nice offices
-can work from home
-autonomy--depending on client
-WPP/EssenceMediacom sometimes tries to reach out to employees. Try being the word. Usually unsuccessful, but they try.
-Everything depends on if you are working for WPP itself, or one of the 100+ holding companies that are much more creative and fun
Cons
-pay inequity
-benefits are middle level
-Executives are not accessible to the employees
-"Window dressing" efforts at DEI
-unbelievably hard to get the basic logistics in the office. It's a battle to get conference rooms, IT help is poor, AV in conf rooms is problematic, have to use (juggle?) both Outlook and Google Workspace
-maze of competing companies under the WPP umbrella that seemingly compete against each other instead of working together. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
-recently lost a lot of clients and are at a low ebb in the cyclical media landscape. But there is room for a comeback!
-risk of burnout as some teams are woefully understaffed
-morale at some of the WPP companies is low, but some, like Media Futures Group, try to boost morale
-bloated amount of VP's and people with gibberish titles