Uproar PR Reviews

Do yourself a favor and keep looking or at the very least speak with ANY past employee before accepting a position with this agency. There’s forced company culture and sorority-like office politics. You will be paid well below industry standard and be expected to dedicate your entire soul, body and life to #UproarJobLove. The partners are unprofessional, rude, conniving and unethical in their business practices. You will be belittled, ridiculed and hung out to dry in front of colleagues time and time again. I didn't believe the negative comments, I figured they were just disgruntled ex-workers, no place could be as bad as they described. Take the comments seriously, there isn't a more toxic place on Earth than this company. The management expects you to have ESP and know what they want without telling you, and take turns berating everyone, even when they are responsible for the mess up. They have no respect for their employees or clients. They over promise what they can do for the clients, and when they under deliver, they blame you. The agency is blind to changes in the industry and doesn't have leadership that understands how to make the shop relevant. Senior leadership is largely comprised of those individuals that learn buzzwords and regurgitate them to clients in an attempt to appear competent. Communication is a huge issue with this company. Kind of ironic since it IS a "communications agency". When new clients are on-boarded there is no communication as to next steps. Sometimes you're just thrown into the launch meeting with the new client. When a client leaves, there is no communication and employees find out through the grapevine - even if they are on that account. The same happens when an employee leaves. Transparency is non-existent and management does not immediately communicate with the client, but waits until the last minute. Naturally the client feels left in the dark and is not happy. The compensation/benefits hardly ever equal the value of the people and the work they do. Guidance and mentorship is lacking, most support will come from those in the trenches with you and not from your superiors. Expectations are high but metrics for success are nebulous at best. There is a lot of unnecessary negativity, belittling and passive aggressive comments that come from the partners, you never know what mood you will get. It doesn't help that the two owners are married, so there is no separation when trying to address certain issues that they are individually responsible for. There’s also a cult-like culture. No one can have a differing opinion at all, no one can complain to “HR” or it gets reported, the Harris’s have a 'holier than thou' attitude. They are bullies who yell & scream on a daily basis and fire people at the drop of a hat in an effort to protect their miserable little empire. All while making you smile for the cameras to portray a creative & fun atmosphere. It isn't, don't do it. Oh and the pay is abysmal. You could probably make more working an hourly retail job than at Uproar.

I waited to share this until my last pay check came in, if this shares anything about the company. Glassdoor Review 1 star My first week I knew that I made a mistake. For being a remote PR agency, that prides itself as being a leader in the industry - they know absolutely NOTHING about influencer marketing. None of our clients had a budget to pay our creators. In fact, most didn’t even have a trade. A performing arts center wouldn’t give us show tickets to creators to make content but expected high KPIs on social posts. At one point we even were in talks with a free app. A FREE APP with no budget to contract influencers. Where is the incentive in that? Every client at Uproar was set up to fail, not just for influencers but across the board. Company culture is HORRIBLE. There’s no leadership whatsoever. At one point I handled 10 clients as a team of 1. I constantly had panic attacks, didn’t leave my computer and when I approached my director about bandwidth she said I wasn’t doing enough. In fact, in my quarterly, my CEO said that I should be grateful. About every two weeks I would also get a new client proposal thrown into the mix, where I would have 1 day to put together strategy and discovery. I received no help from my director. She would constantly ignore my questions and shut down any ideas or trends identified in influencer marketing. She was also incredibly narcissistic. Some of the teams also took this approach to work. One of the automotive teams I worked with had absolutely nasty co-workers. Who would constantly belittle and micromanage my work, even though they were in no shape, or form above me in the hierarchy. This has been one of the worst experiences. This agency has no money, makes decisions on a whim, and constantly burns and churns out its employees.