Poor upper management running off people below them - Anonymous employee Clinch Employee Review

1.0
18 Jun 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people in mid-level roles here are talented, well-spoken and experts in the advertising industry in their respective departments. Everyone is very friendly and willing to help you with any question you may have.

Cons

There are people at this company that are managers who should not be managers and VPs who should not be VPs. Upper management is disorganized and unrealistic, often providing teams with sky-high goals without any sense of direction or vision for how to accomplish said goals. This is very apparent when it comes to revenue goal setting. When you're setting revenue goals that teams can never hope to reach, it sets the entire company up for failure. It's clear the vision for this company is set by people whose heads are in the clouds and whose eyes are not on the prize. If upper management got out of their own way and perhaps got some management coaching the culture here would really thrive. Currently there is a culture set by upper management to always be available for clients and to have no boundaries with them, often advising that working after hours is not only okay but expected. There are not enough people at the mid-level to complete the amount of work that is expected, often resulting in people wearing too many hats and operating outside of their own scope of work with little to no support because everyone is too stretched thin to do what is asked of them. I personally would not recommend working here to my greatest enemy. It will only ruin your mental health so much so that leaving without anything else lined up crosses your mind on the day-to-day.

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5.0
24 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great product, work with tier 1 clients, spearhead of technology

Cons

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1.0
18 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Everyone besides management is wonderful, really skilled and knowledgeable about the ad tech industry and willing to help you. The product is actually cutting edge.

Cons

Management is terrible here, HR is basically non-existent and work life balance might as well be a whisper on the wind. I can tell you for certain that some of these anonymous five star reviews are written by people in the C-Suite trying to keep the ratings of the company up. Claims about "no bureaucracy" and " lots of structure" are straight up lying. There's plenty of red tape and bureaucracy to be found here and absolutely zero structure. Multiple employees who have been here for years are essentially in dead-end positions with no promotions on the horizon because they are stingy with promotions and raises and there is no formal process in place for who gets them. "Priorities shifting quickly" is code for everyone is spread thin, we have no roadmap to success, we are coming up with ideas on the fly and if it's too overwhelming for you, no help is coming - suffer or get put on a PIP that is actually just a firing or layoff waiting to happen. You will also get very little guidance from the people who are supposed to be your managers. You are on your own here. If you are reading this because you are thinking of applying for a position and the thought crosses your mind that only bad employees leave negative reviews and it can't be that bad, please reconsider. It truly is that bad. Would not wish working here on my worst enemy.

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