Ink reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(306 total reviews)
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Simon Leslie/Michael Keating

65% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Ink has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 306 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ink employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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306 reviews
1.0
Jun 25, 2015

Not For The Weak Hearted

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Daily creative activities to boost your mornings and gear up for the day. Good at the start gets mundane after sometime.

Cons

Bad Management. Bad Communication. Bad Culture. Everyone is being monitored closely in a highly stressed environment to achieve unrealistic target numbers.

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Ink Response
9y
Thank you for you feedback. Recently we have revised our recruitment strategy, hired new industry professionals, invested heavily in training and development, worked on appraisals and tackled our internal challenges. Our strategy incorporates continuous development in all our operational fields – whether that’s sales, editorial, creative or financial side of business. Ink has a high performing culture, and all our employees are invited to engage in daily activities (that take place during working hours), (over)perform, and have fun at work (yes, our motto is work hard, play hard). Sales targets at Ink are realistic – they are increased from time to time to allow for new challenges and none of our sales teams has failed to achieve them.
1.0
Jun 15, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The only good thing about INK is that when you leave you'll have perspective. You'll never complain about how bad work is, about bad management, about dysfunctional environment, because ANYTHING after this place will feel like a walk in the park.

Cons

One star is too many - they deserve zero stars. The ONLY good reviews on here were written by Gerry or Simon. Guaranteed. You can hear it in their tone - posturing, pontificating, blaming... These two pride themselves on psychological warfare, good cop bad cop behavior. They lead with fear and chaos, making everyone around them feel like their on the verge of being fired because they think it's motivating. They enjoy creating a sales environment that's like a pit of snakes or a back alley dogfight wherein the entire "team" is fighting so hard for the "deal a day" that they undercut, lie and steal, and try to sell outside of their territories - anything they can do to get the "deal" - meanwhile, there is no order and nobody behaves with professional courtesy or self respect. NONE of the managers have any power, everything is in the hands of these two. Gerry and Simon pride themselves on attrition. They think people leave because they just "can't handle pressure" - WRONG, they leave because they have self respect and won't have their livelihood threatened on a daily basis by a couple people who can barley string a sentence together. The only people who should consider a job here, or consider staying at INK are those who have an incessant need for drama & Chaos, don't have any other options, who have no intelligence or who enjoy screwing people over because that's the only way you can succeed there - by playing nasty and by devaluing yourself and those around you. That's the example that leadership sets and the environment they foster. GROSS!

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Ink Response
9y
Thank you for your reply, but we have flagged this due to its offensive, inaccurate and toxic content.
4.0
Jun 12, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Errrr loads actually....number 1 media company in the world in its sector, working on airline partner brands that are known throughout the world, global travel, real career prospects for those that actually want a career, high earnings for those that actually want to make a difference, surrounded by those that know what they are talking about and you can learn from, working with advertisers that are household names..many many pros in working for Ink..when someone says "sales is hard"..really they are saying "sales is not for me"..fair enough don't do sales.

Cons

As with every sales house in the world..if you under perform you wont succeed, if you don't care you wont succeed, if you have a bad attitude you wont succeed, if you believe that 2 out of 8 hours on the phone a day selling global products is to much then..wait for it..yes wont succeed...their not Ink's cons, they are sales cons.

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