Worst role in my entire career - Anonymous employee Dentsu Employee Review

1.0
21 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is at industry level. Subsidised restaurant. High spec office space

Cons

Bully and victimisation is rife among the senior management and HR are supine and complicit in this toxic culture. If the face fits - male, over-confident (mostly white) straight yes men you'll be spared the worst of it. Careers have been terminated on a whim and others hounded out of the business. The politics amongst the global management and their subordinates is utterly poisonous.

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Dentsu Response
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Thanks for your comments. We are sorry you feel this way. Diversity is something we are actively looking to improve and as part of this we have set ourselves the goal to have an equal gender balance at all levels of our business by the end of 2019. As an organisation we do not tolerate bullying so if you would like to contact us to talk this through please do.

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