Poor Leadership Trickles Down - Anonymous employee Cutwater Employee Review

-On the creative side, only yes-men (and NO women) get promoted. It's clear that they don't want talented people, only people who will prop up the CCO's ego. If you're actually talented, your ideas will be dismissed in favor of the CCO's been-there, done-that ideas. Counter-viewpoints aren't encouraged and in fact most people don't speak up or attempt to collaborate as you'll set the CCO off on a time-wasting tangent serving no purpose. The truly talented creatives toil for a few months before giving up and looking for other job opportunities. -Nearly everything has to be approved by the CCO, who never checks his email and barely regards anything he isn't personally interested in, wasting a lot of time and productivity. I can't tell you how many times we needed him to look at something and chased him around all day only to have him googling cars on his phone while we showed it to him. -No project managers. Everything is extremely disorganized with no real intention to change it, and it keeps getting worse and worse. There is no process to anything, from meetings to labeling files to calendars, and anyone that comes in and attempts it gives up quickly because there's no incentives to get anyone to use a system. -Revolving door. About one person a month on average quits which deeply affects a staff of 30. This feeds back into the disorganization thing. No one knows where anything is, and no one is invested in making it better. Nothing about the culture here encourages anyone to go the extra mile or feel passionate about the company or work. -Upper management and heads of departments have no respect and in fact disdain for their employees. There is not a culture of trust here. You will not be given the benefit of the doubt. You have limited PTO that counts for both sick days and vacation and working from home is strongly discouraged, while the leaders take time off constantly to chill on their yachts and go to fancy parties. -Poor pay. They WILL low ball you, especially by San Francisco cost of living standards. -The clients are cheap and unwilling to take risks, so as a creative you will find yourself working on the same repetitive traditional work month after month