Great place to start your career - Social Media Specialist Dentsu Employee Review

4.0
Jan 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Getting to work on some of the world's leading brands alongside some of the most amazing colleagues. - Your ideas actually materialize, not something that happens in every agency. - Massive drive to be innovative means that everyone gets involved in exciting brainstorms. - Supportive upper management (the CEO knows everyone in the building!) - Promotions happen fairly frequently so it's a great place to progress in your career. - Nice new building in good location. - Free coffee.

Cons

- Depending on your department, work/life balance can vary. - Small(ish) agency, so you get pulled on to things you don't feel qualified to do from time to time. - Working as a team can sometimes fall by the way side as you end up having to do all aspects of a task yourself, which can be stressful. - No additional benefits given.

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5.0
Jun 21, 2026
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Pros

Flexible and nice people. Good clients

Cons

The pay is way lower than others, no room to move up

4.0
Jun 13, 2026
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Pros

I’ve been with dentsu for 4 years and I’ve really enjoyed my time. I’ve learned a lot, and worked with very smart people internally and had had interesting clients externally. Making the jump to a big agency was lethal in my professional career. This company offers great flexibility, and awesome PTO. I was able to get promoted, however promotions take a long time.

Cons

Some clients are extremely demanding. Long nights where the clients want to activate something that day or next day and our own internal teams don’t have our back and are also pushing for out of control activations. In my 4 years here, we had one annual salary raise which is not acceptable or fair to everyone. The market rate is way above what we’re getting paid. Dentsu needs to keep up as they’re on the lower end of the pay range and people are leaving because we’re losing hope of ever getting a salary raise when we could job hop and easily get 20% more. Truly disappointing since I have enjoyed my time here. The company has lost major clients and it’s difficult to feel hope for any promotions or raises.

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