Awful management - Anonymous employee Canonical Employee Review

2.0
Aug 24, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Remote work - Opportunity to have a decent tech company on your CV. - Good income

Cons

- The hiring process itself takes 2 months at minimum or over 6+ months. - When you're new: Depending on the team/department you're in. Good luck with getting the support you need to onboard and succeed. You'll be thrown into 5-10 spreadsheets, 5 Google docs and 1 onboarding Google doc to help you with that. It will take about 6 months for an average person to learn how to assimilate. - On the job description it says "agile". It's not, employees are incentivized to overwork and become bottlenecks. Slowing down the workflow significantly. - The expectation of you as an employee is to deliver high-quality work regardless of constraints or conflicting information from different stakeholders. When they say constraint it's lack of resources and support. - You will be forced to do HR work by "being part of the hiring process". Spending an amount of your day reading interviews, or interviewing people. They will also ask you to work faster in the midst of this. - No transparency. People aren't allowed to talk about their pay scale. - High employee churn. It's not weird to see 2-5 people say goodbye every week.

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Canonical Response
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Thank you for highlighting both the positives and negatives of your personal experience. Remote working opportunities, our brand name and our compensation are often sighted as big pluses so we are glad you recognise them too! In January 2023 we launched our on-boarding platform which provides our new starters with lots of information ahead of Day 1. We also run an induction week for all new starters in person. 'On the job' induction plans are managed by each team so I would actively encourage you to raise your ideas and suggestions to make this better in your team. Sometimes it takes a combined effort to make our processes perfect.

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