Please have a real think and take some time before you decide to accept a job here - Anonymous employee Beauty Pie Employee Review

1.0
9 Feb 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interesting business idea, good products, some kind and nice people, good away days and Christmas parties

Cons

- They hire good, talented people who are then not allowed to do their jobs as the senior management team, who are ill-equipped, are too scared to challenge the founder, who wants to do everything herself, and wants 'yes people' around her to facilitate this - Quite a gossipy, malicious environment which is fuelled further by HR who seems to thrive on this. - HR is unprofessional and will tell you things about other colleagues/business decisions before it's "official" - Won't do your career any good. Still in start-up mode and therefore you'll be fighting to progress, learn anything or use any of your skills/experience - Founder picks and chooses her favourite people. If you're in, good for you. If you're not, it won't be a happy place to be - High turnover of staff. Several people, including very senior people and heads of departments have all left very quickly - many without jobs to go to, as they were so keen to leave - Seeing your colleagues, who are kind and talented people, become sad, stressed and depressed coming to work every day - Weak management who haven't received any training and haven't tried to do anything to rectify the toxic culture.

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Beauty Pie Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, we value all feedback whether positive or negative. We try very hard to be open and honest during the hiring process about the realities of working in a founder led, start up environment and are sorry if you feel that the reality for you was not what you expected. I am also sorry to ready your views on the HR team as we strive to always conduct ourselves in a professional way, whilst being as open and honest as we can. We see the sharing of information as a key way to engage people in the decisions taking place. I would encourage you to come and speak to me directly if you feel you have examples of where you feel information shared did not fit with our aims so we can address this for the future. As a current employee I hope you have taken the opportunity to use our recent employee engagement survey as a way of also sharing your views to allow us to address any issues. This survey works best when we can get specific examples of situations or areas that you are unhappy about in our culture. I am glad to hear you enjoy some of the events we have for our employees, such as the staff parties and away days and we are always looking at different ways to rewards and recognise the hard working teams here. There are number of channels open to you as a current employee to share your views with us internally to give us a chance to investigate and respond to your concerns and I hope that by doing this you can give us a chance to offer support and make changes where they are needed.

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Cons

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2.0
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Products are great Employees are nice Salaries are fair

Cons

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Beauty Pie Response
2y
Thanks for taking the time to leave your feedback. It’s great to read you enjoy working with your colleagues and that you are happy with the benefits we offer. Its very disappointing to hear that you feel the culture is run on fear, we run quarterly engagement surveys and this theme has not come up in any feedback. We’d encourage you to speak with your line manager or the People team to discuss your concerns so we can find you a resolution moving forward and discuss your feedback further.
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