Toxic culture, awful SLT, nice colleagues - Anonymous employee The River Group Employee Review

I can't think of a single thing.

Costs are wildly out across projects as the senior management want to keep them as low as possible so they win some business, with the added complexity of not knowing how to cost anything that isn’t print so you end up trying to deliver projects with no support, no brief and no hope of success. Failure is baked in. It’s never them, it’s always you. Urgency is embedded in everything but it’s not a virtue - it’s leadership in panic. If everything is urgent nothing is important. It’s not in my nature to write something as visceral as this, but it needs saying. No other agency I have ever worked at functions in this way. My advice would be to swerve it at all costs.

I loved my time at River. I was only there for a short time but I valued the experience as I was surrounded by brilliant professionals and a diverse workplace. The founder, Nicki, is an inspiration.

The team are fabulous and its so refreshing to find people of all ages together.