I’m a freelancer, never held a senior title before, have an offer for senior at $115k from matte projects. They have cool clients, and I’ve always wanted to work more on events, but they have a super low rating on glassdoor. Any tips on how to proceed? I have more interviews coming in and I’m aware it’s a employees market right now. The job sounded perfect until I read the reviews on glassdoor.

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Gotta say in my experience, whatever I see on Glassdoor tends to hold up in reality. I’d probably hold out if the reviews for that place are abysmal

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Reach out to ex-employees on LinkedIn, etc - they’ll be able to confirm details and give you their two cents

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oh wow that’s a really good idea. thank you :)

My friend worked there, it’s a sweat shop. You’ll get big names but they’re unorganized and overworked.

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I was in your position once. Got offered a job at an agency with big clients, I didn’t listen to the Glassdoor reviews and I ended up in the hospital sick from stress and ultimately I was terminated when I could no longer be their slave. I would say trust those reviews, in my experience they’ve always been right and I always regret not taking them seriously

matte pays low (generally).. and that’s because they go after young talents who only go after (you said it) “cool” projects.

115k is ok.

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I’m assuming you’re in NYC. 115k is ok.

Use it as leverage for other offers

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115K is solid for FT at this role. I work in experiential and projects are more sprint based. You get actual down time because once something is physically built, you can’t “go into the working file and change a few things”. I’d suss it out for a bit, if you don’t like it, you can always go freelance again.

hmm that’s a good tip, thank you. i have the feeling that during the down times they’ll keep me busy with marketing/social haha but thats true, i can always leave

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