Pros
• Flexible working • Good office and location in between Old Street/Liverpool Street, so super easy to commute to. • Secure place to store your bike • Great food options for lunch • Some great bars nearby • Some lovely people work here • Benefits are ok, but are changing • Will give you exposure to MR if you’re entry level
Cons
I’ll keep this succinct for you: • Immensely toxic environment • High employee churn, particularly post Gapfish/Lucid acquisition since they tend to buy and demolish • When employees exit, they’ll rarely replace them and make sure you’re worked to the bone to make up for it • Management lacks skills in: Managing people, strategy, vision, knowledge, empathy, decision making, communication, planning and trustworthiness. • A lot of internal ego strutting and high fives from individuals who try to use the worst business lingo to sound enterprising and intelligent and expect people to take them seriously • Zero vision and zero strategy other than grow – If you’re not in sales, its hard to get any type of recognition or a seat at the table • Clients are not priority, just a source of revenue • Low employee value in general • Morale is on the floor • Don’t believe the hype, they’re not tech, I’ve worked in tech for most of my career, this is a pure service business with a user interface – the tech is a sweatshop of inadequate contractors in india doing the “programmatic” work manually. They’re not employees either so lack any job securities • In fact a lot of key positions are filled by contractors who are not as effective as the people who they’re replacing • Employees are not empowered • Employees are not to question or come up with suggestions. • They really don’t know what DEI is. • Revenue generation is the only thing that matters, everything else is half baked smoke and mirrors • Lacks transparency • Company works very much to a hierarchy – get in line or get out • Integration with recently acquisitions is a demonstration on how not to do an acquisition or an integration • The culture is dire, the worst I have ever experienced • The Exec Leadership - other than the Execs being a revolving door of change this year. I would bet if our CEO could be radical and start over, he would, and the rest of the business would celebrate. This place would change for the better if we had an executive team with general competency, empathy, and a desire to learn and collaborate with each other. Crucial functions like human resources aren’t taken seriously anymore with the relationship between them and employees never being so low and lacking in trust just because of who sits at the head, it’s frightening and a total scandal. It’s a complete mess.
