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Klick Health

Weaponized PR
Klick maintains a rabid focus on using PR as a first strike toolkit to pursue and sustain short and long-term goals. Common, insignificant events or achievements are blown up and repeatedly broadcast internally (for morale and loyalty) and externally (on publications they 'donate' significant sums of money to). A dedicated PR unit oversees and carefully curates stories to sell this specific image. 

Culture
Klick prides itself on culture. In fact, a significant chunk of its internal PR is dedicated to projecting a culture that trumps anything you'd find in other agencies around the city. 

The truth is far more mundane. The same politics, cliques, and interpersonal problems can be found here. The facade of caring and mentorship quickly dissipates under stress. 'Ordinary' folk immediately feel out of place amidst the 'always on' charade that never lets up.

C Suite
Klicks C suite and senior leadership team routinely broadcast a caring, benevolent attitude in the short term, and an uninterested, aloof one behind the curtains, They treat themselves to off sites in exotic locales, gift themselves luxury cars, and engage in interpersonal relationships with younger employees within the company. Awkward employees and clients are often mocked behind closed doors.  

Of the company's founders, the celebrity CEO constantly embellishes (or has people embellish) on his intellect, importance, and achievements. A cursory examination of said achievements reveals a disappointingly ordinary person who uses money as a golden ticket to shock and awe in the absence of actual, tangible value. He is regularly mocked by his own senior leadership team.

Management
Klick runs lunch and learns that teach employees how to be better leaders. A vast majority of Klicks managers, however, rarely follow this advice.  

The Work
You will sink hours of your life into peddling drugs to sick and dying demographics. Its about as exciting as you'd imagine.

Culture at Klick is very cultish and their internal PR efforts are cringey. They are constantly self congratulating themselves as a company and it feels very insincere. 

If you drink the Kool Aid and like it you will do well. 

PMs can be treated differently depending on what brand you are on. Sometimes you are a glorified personal assistant other times a babysitter. They say they are agile but they are really not. General PM processes are also not consistent across brands and there is a lot of bureaucracy.

I was only there briefly on contract as a designer, but even I could see the many red flags at Klick.

First is their  in-house billing/project management tool, that monitors your every move in the building. Secondly is the blatant favouritism displayed by studio managers.  Thirdly, the insane amounts of overtime you're expected to work. As someone on Reddit appropriately said, "The work culture glorifies burnout as a badge of honour."  Although my time was brief, I spent more than enough weekends there and I had project managers texting me at 11:00PM at night.

When you see past all the happy HR propaganda, nice drinks, and pizza parties, the culture of this organization is downright creepy and toxic. If you don't like the taste of the Kool-Aid, stay away at all costs!

1. A typical day starts with standup calls where the engagement consultants lead the call and discuss the tasks and timelines.
2. I learned a lot as i had to perform the role of an solution architect, business analyst and sometimes engagement consultant as well on top of my business systems analyst responsibilities.
3. Management is very helpful and understanding.
4. Workplace culture is very collaborative.

Worst managed company I've ever worked for. There is basically no real leadership. Everything is on fire all the time. Clients are always at risk. All projects overrun. Culture is hyper political and escalations result in nothing happening or changing. Massive employee attrition or release. Total revolving door of employees. Everything and everyone is transactional. Everyone is more concerned with where to bill than doing quality work. Managers are expected to be fully billable so employee development comes as a political and perception cost. Everything is always on fire and everyone points the finger at each other. Stay far away if you want a collaborative and safe culture!

I worked here for just over 2 years as a PM. It was an incredibly stressful job. I was expected to work a ton of over time without any thanks. PMs have to deal with production team that hates you because you have to fulfill the tight deadlines promised by the Account Directors. The Account Directors hate you because they under sell the amount of time it takes to do the work so projects are frequently over budget. You can't win. I'm in a new role now with a lot less stress and more compensation. Avoid if you're a PM.

Klick is a great company! I've been here for a few years now and have worked on meaningful projects in the life science space. The culture and environment is top notch, lots of ways to get involved with various groups/clubs and the company has a big focus on corporate social responsibility and giving back.
The pace is definitely fast and there are times where you need to work later but overall, we are provided with work-life balance and many opportunities to focus on our health and wellbeing.


Klick started off great but as they grew over the years, it became very top heavy. The ratio between senior leadership and the workers are extremely skewed. They were once people focused but there has been a shift in the last several years. There is no longer such a thing as job security here. Toxic internal politics is alive and well. It’s a great place to gain experience but with the high turnover it can be very stressful.

The work itself can be fun and creative, but generally it's tedious and you follow processes that are ineffective with little ability to change them. The turnover here is extremely high. They hire very well but people who talent know they can take it somewhere that their time and life is respected, which is not Klick.

PMO has a conflicting reputation - way more people have departed than stayed (warning: turnover rate), so you're bound to meet ex-PM's in every industry. 

Conflicting because colleagues and culture is great. Middle management is a problem because recruitment headhunts people from sinking ships/failing companies. 

Pay is decent for advertising but you'll be more than making up for it. Definition of work life integration.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Editor 10 salaries reported	$74,400 per year
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Senior project manager 10 salaries reported	$96,900 per year
Web developer 10 salaries reported	$75,500 per year
Media planner 9 salaries reported	$57,833 per year

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