McCann Reviews

McCann pride themselves on being 'the most creative agency in the world', this is so far from the truth it's laughable. If you want to work with e-cigarette and cigarette brands this is the place for you, if not avoid, as this is primarily what you will be working on (although they don't want people to know this). The managers are bullies who like to belittle people who they think are beneath them, some of whom would have been fired by any decent company for some of their actions, yet McCann is very good at brushing things under the carpet. The culture has a long long way to go its still an old boys club. I urge you to avoid at all costs.

The whole company is overworked (even to ad-industry standards) to the point of breakdown/exhaustion. Some of the big accounts like Just Eat, Xbox, Dettol, saw multiple people signed off or resign with stress across all disciplines (PM, strategy, account management). There's no support for the mid-level staff who are doing the actual work and you're expected to just put up with the an insane workload until breaking point. Some truly awful people in senior positions particularly within strategy - I saw frequent bullying behaviour which is ignored by senior management in spite of multiple claims against said person.