Do Not Recommend - Anonymous employee FINE Employee Review

1.0
2 Feb 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, competitive pay, great peers. Truly some of the best people work at FINE.

Cons

Toxic work culture, even more toxic leadership. No sense of personal boundaries. Your time is overly micro-managed and they expect longer than 40 hour work-weeks, and often times will try and get your weekends, too. Nepotism. So much nepotism. Constant moving goal posts for promotions and will sometimes be used as a bargaining chip to get you to erode more of what's left your personal boundaries. Favoritism. Really weird and consistent use of cultural appropriation. Leadership is insular and cliquey, and often responds to employees with with punitive and retaliatory action for personal–not professional–reasons. Unrealistic timelines and expectations set by leadership, which means you're destined to fail and will receive all the blame for it.

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5.0
26 Sept 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people at FINE are super talented and smart and have a LOT of compassion and empathy for each other. It's super rare to see this level of humanity at an agency. The leadership are committed to taking a time out and redefining the agency with intention and making sure the team has what it needs to succeed. It's a slow process but it is actively moving towards a best in class employee experience and operating structure. I have not worked in an organization this aligned and purposeful and it makes me really happy to know we are all doing our parts to make the agency what we want it to be.

Cons

Because the agency has been a small family operation for so long and has grown so quickly, there are a lot of operational things that have been neglected like policies and processes. This has caused a lot of ambiguity for staff on how to get things done or who to go to for help. As mentioned above, there is renewed focus and a whole team dedicated to ironing out these pieces but it takes time.

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2.0
5 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good Coworkers and Mid-Level Managers

Cons

Eroding Work/Life Balance, Lack of Job Security, No Cost of Living Raise, Upper Management Disconnected from Average Employees, Strong Push of "We're a Family" Messaging While Employees are Treated as Disposable Resources, Burn Out Common

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