FINN Partners reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(378 total reviews)
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Peter Finn

80% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

FINN Partners has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 378 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FINN Partners employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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378 reviews
1.0
Jun 6, 2018

Turn and Run

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Genuinely nice people. The best hours and work/life balance imaginable.

Cons

- There is zero office culture across the board. Each office (with the exclusion of NY) might have its own bit of culture but that's fully dependent on the agency it was BEFORE being acquired by FP. - There is zero integration on newly (or previously) acquired agencies. They all just keep action as they did prior to the merger - There is no accountability for profitability, meaning that over service runs rampant. It is a completely top line driven agency, meaning that there is constant pressure on new biz wins and no focus on being a better partner to the client. Just say yes, no matter what the best approach would be - The CEO has no idea how to run an agency. He only knows how to quickly and effectively make money for the founders of Finn Partners. - Sitting in a meeting with the Founding Managing Partners is like being at another family's holiday dinner. Moments of interesting conversation but mostly just sitting there feeling awkward, watching them bicker amongst themselves without coming to any conclusions and thanking your lucky stars that they aren't YOUR family.

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Response from Peter Finn - Out of respect for people’s feelings and their right to express a point-of-view, we rarely respond to postings on Glassdoor. This case is an exception. Given its content, I know the writer is a former senior administrative employee who was terminated. This review is filled with untruths and diminishes FINN employees, and therefore I must respond. 1) Finn Partners has been named a “Best Place to Work” by the Holmes Report based on feedback received in its survey of our employees, and the results of our annual employee surveys and low employee turnover rates speak to a vibrant and healthy office culture. As the employee who wrote this review never visited most of our offices, it is hard to see how he can offer an informed opinion. And in fact, seven of our offices didn’t even originate from an acquisition. 2) Acquisitions are one important part of our strategy to grow and strengthen our practices areas and build market share where we have offices, and also to enter new geographies. It also has been a vital source of new talent for our agency – talent that has thrived in our collaborative culture. 3) We sometimes over service accounts when we believe it is in the agency’s long-term interest or if we want to invest in the client’s objectives. As a result of placing clients first, our client retention rates are high, as are our levels of client satisfaction. 4) Our rapid growth, the team we have assembled, the many clients we serve, and the many awards we have won since our launch all speak to our management’s ability to build a successful agency. Financially, we have a demonstrated, ongoing commitment to treating our employees fairly. 5) I assure Glassdoor readers that our Founding Managing Partner group is very united. Actions speak louder than words - on average the Founding Managing Partners have worked together for more than 20 years, and no Founding Managing Partner has left the company since inception. Together, we have guided the growth of Finn Partners to be among the top five independent agencies and among the top 25 PR agencies globally. The author of the Glassdoor post was not a Founding Managing Partner, but in the spirit of transparency was invited to sit in on our meetings because of the individual’s senior role in administration. This employee knows that making Finn Partners a best place to work and building an environment in which careers are nurtured and advanced is important to me and is a core agency value. We take Glassdoor feedback to heart. I care very deeply about colleagues’ feedback. It is always welcome and is heard with an open heart. Unfortunately, it is clear from the response that this employee did not share our priorities and our values. Peter Finn
1.0
Dec 27, 2021
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Pros

PTO was decent. Coworkers at or around your level are fun to work with and talk to. The CEO emailed us once a month and it was always nice to hear from him. Good education on the media, PR, and branding landscape.

Cons

Very minimal pay for very minimal work-life balance. Employees are overworked, overstressed, and accounts are super understaffed and reliant on the work of junior staff that do not have the bandwidth to work on those accounts. Senior staff are incredibly toxic and promote burnout culture among junior staff while taking off significantly more time than the people actually doing the work on their accounts. Not to mention the fact that they're incredibly condescending towards their staff, both in written and in verbal communications. This is consistent across multiple reviews on Glassdoor. But, I suppose it's worth it if they can boast about their industry awards on LinkedIn or win a semi-big-brand account that they'll lose in two years because it was understaffed, not to mention that client expectations are never kept in check. Benefits are not great and, again, neither is the pay. PTO is pretty good, though.

2.0
Oct 13, 2021
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Pros

Finn has impressive clients and some of the staff are nice.

Cons

Pay for lower-level employees is not enough/incredibly low. The culture is very "everyone for themselves." No real appreciation for lower-level employees especially. Many of the senior-level people take advantage of lower-level employees and play into unnecessary drama/hold grudges (very unprofessional). Because everyone is out for themselves, people come off as haughty and braggy. The statements around DEI seem fake and just something to put on their website rather than things they actually believe. My experience here was stressful and embodied the saying "a few apples can spoil the whole bunch." It seems like Peter and other higher-ups do have a good vision, but the larger team as a whole does not play into that positive vision but has very little accountability for their inappropriate and sometimes abusive behavior.

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