What’s Verizon like as a client? Interviewing for a job and that’s the main account.

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I’ll give it to you straight - they’re one of advertising’s most difficult clients.

They can be demanding, disorganized and lack creative ambition.

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I can only speak to what I’ve heard, and what C1 posted is the gist I got. Can’t speak to “creative ambition” part, but I’ve heard a few creatives say how difficult they were to work with.

I once asked the person interviewing me what their favorite part about working for Verizon was, their response was there was free manicures every thursday, which was convenient because she never got to leave early enough to go to the salon. My nails and I ran.

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I didn’t and now I feel bad

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Run. Run as fast as you can.

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I have never heard a single Account person say that they enjoy working on that account. I have heard Account people say they’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown working on that account.

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Wireless in general is rough. Verizon and TMO are both notoriously fast paced and hard ti sell decent work into

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Omg this is insightful

I worked for both Samsung and Verizon accounts at different points in my career. They were not bad. The Samsung calls could be lengthy if you worked with an overseas office and they needed translations. Samsung US office client was fine to work with.

I worked in healthcare now. Pharma clients are much much worse. The work is demanding because they lose so much money if they launch drugs late, lots of late nights and weekend work near launch, and the clients are not very marketing/design savvy.

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Amazing experience but be prepared to not sleep and spend more time working than at home

They were always a tough brand. Do know people who built their careers on the quantity of work they produced for them, though.

Interestingly, their in-house agency (previously named 140) was a pretty solid shop to work for and well-managed.

“Well managed” is pushing it. Political as hell. Didn’t know it’s no longer 140.

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