No culture - Anonymous employee Brainlabs Employee Review

1.0
24 Mar 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay for Toronto ad agency standards Fully remote

Cons

Too many to count. Leadership is not experienced enough to be managing people. Very camp counselor vibes. Fully remote means there's no culture. Period. They say it's the most important thing to the company, but without real people interacting in real life, culture is non existent. There's only so many slack channels and town halls you can do to generate hype. Company is actually not doing as well as they seem. They have a shiny website and nice logo/branding. But their clients are holding on by a thread. Their top two NAMER clients are not that big. We are in a recession, clients are leaving one by one. It's a matter of time before a big fish flops and this agency goes under. Most people that work here are mediocre at best. If you're a high achiever, did well in school and life, and excel wherever you go, you won't find your people here. Most people here are coasting for the paycheck. Can't blame them. But this job showed me money can't buy everything lol

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

You have a CEO who wears a fun hat, so that means he's down with the young folks, I guess.

Cons

It's literally no different than all the other corporate agencies. You won't sleep, you won't eat, and you'll get thrown under the bus. You'll be graded not on your performance, but on how well you follow mundane processes that do literally nothing to produce quality work. Management is obsessed with adding new documents or micromanaging policies for everything they can. Just because employees aren't being yelled at doesn't mean the environment isn't toxic. You will not have a life here, They will not set you up for success.

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