Wunderman Thompson Commerce reviews about "people"

I had an amazing experience, I used to tell people Wunderman is wonderful. I wished I had stayed instead of running after the cool sexy brand that ended up being not that cool after all.

As many choose to work remote, the office often lacks a 'buzz' and a fun social side - as a younger employee I always wished the offices had a bit more of an atmosphere.

So much wrong with this place. They don’t issue employees new passes so it makes every day a situation to get into your own office. Then everything is political , most people are clueless. No one has the customer best interest at heart. Gang mentality of choosing to cover for each other instead of deliver quality work and I genuinely believe it’s a sexist environment where women are expected to be demure (smile a lot - that sort of thing). Weak management and chaotic decision making. Genuinely one of the worst career experiences of my life. Most of their creds are lies, outdated and inflated. My advice is to move on, this place is where careers come to die.

Poor management globally Uses people & then terminate their services. Hire & fire No work life balance No increaments Full of politics

I was not allowed to return to work because they had not arranged occupational health. This was later used against me as a point for my redundancy. More senior management unaware of discussions had with direct line management

Takes time to grow and pay rise

Nothing special about culture/work environment, salaries could be better

It's a behemoth that needs to be dismantled as it is an incumbent. It swallows up companies in one go and HR is overloaded so much so, new contracts with the company and perks will be delayed upto one year. It's board is careless, shareholder driven for the sake of its parent company WPP. It is an elitist company for sure, conspiracy worthy. Zillenals and later disregard this company at all costs for your sanity and job security. You will never be valued, regardless of sprinkling of perks. HR are there to cover up the boards mess and they are regularly stressed out. You will 100% be ignored for your talents and opinions on technology if your working for a subsidiary that has been bought out by WTC/WPP. The board keeps puppets in place and ignores any technological wisdom of any staff they have placed. On number of occasions the board overruled the MD and got rid of around 50 people on occasion for profit sake, foregoing the knowledge that profitability would not be achieved in 2023, but still pushed for profit in 2023. Like 1% chance it would. The board's vision for profitability and were it intersects with technology is crackpot at best. They lack technology experience at board level and never get off their high horse to meet any of the little people on the ground because they keep swallowing new companies up on a quarterly basis. WPP makes this so, and what's even funnier is the WPP MD's mantra for carbon neutrality in his town hall meetings, makes him look like Kalus Schwab (WEF), or at least preaching from his trough. They also underpay your pension by a sneaky 0.5% and never will admit to it as daylight robbery.

Old-fashioned timesheet systems restrict talent development because the whole focus shifts from delivering great work to putting in exact number of hours for specific task and then moving on. Spending time on learning and training can be very hard due to the focus on billability.