I Wouldn’t Have Taken The Offer - Anonymous employee Lobeline Communications Employee Review

Great exposure to the Pr industry

Not much, great company to work for and grow.

This was my second internship in LA and it undeniably helped propel me to get one of the most coveted PR internships in the country after I was here. The owner was very vocally supportive of my writing, which helped me gain confidence in a way that's hard to put into words. My headline here is true, I got my next internship because Lobeline was allowing me to draft pitches, gain media connections and do social management that a FT post-grad specialist would typically work on. That undeniably helped my career and I will forever be grateful for my time here because of it. Working here was the kickoff to what has allowed me access to A list companies post-grad. If you're willing to put in the work here (it's a lot of cold pitching) -- it can pay off, but I would also say I was working a lot harder than other interns.

At the time I was an intern here, it was borderline full-time (25-30hrs/wk) and unpaid -- but it seems that has changed. It's a small business (less than 50 ee), and office politics really swayed the owner's opinion of interns futures at the company (after reading the negative reviews here, I would say it's safe to assume that culture is still somewhat alive). If you're too threatening to someone higher ranking, they'll boot you out of the office -- survivor style. You have some big personalities but if you stay pretty vanilla, I ran into no big issues -- but I also seldom spoke up when I disagreed with management because I was scolded for doing so once.