Vantaggi
You get to try and convince clients to take ridiculous stands for social issues that have nothing to do with their brand, and will likely just lose sales for them. You can get promoted a lot, but expect <2% raises with each of those.
Svantaggi
Edelman has a rampant culture of saying anything to enhance their personal brands. Leaders say anything (and then don’t follow through), promise clients anything (and then dump it on their unsuspecting employees), promise promotion and financial gain to encourage ridiculous amounts of overtime work (and then don’t follow through), pretend to care about DEI (and then manipulate the women on their teams to produce above and beyond while handing the huge salaries and titles to the men they hired nepotistically into roles they were unqualified for), shamelessly flaunt any social issues they think might benefit them, like not working with oil and gas (and then continuing to take contracts from them while making excuses for why). Leadership PROMISED to the company on an all-hands call that there would be no layoffs during COVID, and then two weeks later announced layoffs. They will say whatever they think will - in that moment - will gain them the most benefit. And then they will shamelessly break their word, trample those in their power, and abuse anyone they can if it’s convenient. I suppose this is what you get working in PR? Perhaps that’s what they’re paid for.