Avoid! - Recensione dipendente - Account Director presso The River Group

1,0
26 nov 2024
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Some great people (Stockholm syndrome comes to mind) and nice office location.

Svantaggi

Management. There are some suspect financial practices in this agency, and if you question them at all, then you are instantly seen as a threat. Management say they like strong people, especially women, but the moment you have the temerity to offer an alternate opinion or solution, you are shut up. I was once pinched, hard, in a meeting, as I was about to say something. The person didn't even know what I was going to say, before they made sure to quiet me. Physical abuse such as this cannot be tolerated. I'm disappointed with myself that I didn't take this further. SLT don't seem to have moved on from the publishing world. Content and content creation is very different to traditional publishing and the same processes don't work. When I was hired, there were a number of other new hires. We all ticked DE&I boxes, and I feel this is the only reason we were hired: to give credence to the DE&I talent management arm of the business, they had to show diversity within the wider agency. Like many reviews state, this is a toxic environment, and I suggest it be avoided at all costs.

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Risposta di The River Group
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Thanks for leaving a review of your time here. You’ve raised some serious points which we’d like to address. Firstly, of course physical abuse, or any kind of inappropriate behaviour, is absolutely not tolerated! You have said that you did not take any action following the incident you described, and as nothing was reported it’s very unfair to raise it anonymously on Glassdoor as we’re unable to investigate or take any appropriate action. We have various channels whereby staff can raise a concern should they need to and it would be handled sensitively and taken seriously. Secondly, we value all of our talented colleagues and whilst we certainly promote a diverse workforce as it brings many benefits to our team and the work we produce; we always hire based on the skillset required for the job, and all candidates are given an equal opportunity to demonstrate what value they can bring. Thirdly, our Finance team is highly skilled, fully qualified and subject to regular audits, so to suggest that our financial practices are “suspect” is clearly untrue. If we had in any way spurious practices we wouldn’t have retained blue chip clients for 20 years. We are proud of the variety of content produced for our clients, and although we’re not solely a magazine publisher, our titles continue to go from strength to strength and win editorial awards. We’ve also invested heavily in our insight, strategy and influencer teams to broaden our offering and we’re enjoying working with our newer clients as well as those who’ve trusted River to produce top quality content for many years. From your comments it doesn’t seem like you enjoyed your time here, and that saddens us, as we endeavour to create a positive experience for everyone. If you’d like to get in touch directly about any of the issues you’ve raised please do so.

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2,0
12 mag 2026
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- Nice people working at River, unfortunately we all hate our jobs

Svantaggi

- Incredibly toxic, worst SLT imaginable. everyone says that the CEO is a women hating bully and it's been witnessed first hand. No one respects her. Managing director is fake and will be kind to anyone's face and seem like she cares.... she doesn't.

1,0
12 feb 2026
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

I can't think of a single thing.

Svantaggi

Costs are wildly out across projects as the senior management want to keep them as low as possible so they win some business, with the added complexity of not knowing how to cost anything that isn’t print so you end up trying to deliver projects with no support, no brief and no hope of success. Failure is baked in. It’s never them, it’s always you. Urgency is embedded in everything but it’s not a virtue - it’s leadership in panic. If everything is urgent nothing is important. It’s not in my nature to write something as visceral as this, but it needs saying. No other agency I have ever worked at functions in this way. My advice would be to swerve it at all costs.

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