It made me appreciate every other job I've had - Anonymous employee BuzzBuzzHome Employee Review

1.0
17 Apr 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The place offers a great health/dental plan. I've never seen my dentist so regularly. They also manage to hire some very talented people.

Cons

The biggest con I can mention is that this list is going to be much longer than the 'pros'. Projects are poorly managed: a high level idea will exist, but a full set of specs and requirements won't be completed until your project is already late, and then you will have to try to explain why your project is late. You will also be expected to pick up additional projects outside the scope of (and in addition to) what you were initially hired to do. (example: secretarial duties). Failure to do so will reflect poorly during your reviews. You will be micro-managed by the executive team, no matter what level of employee you are. Executives go to great lengths to completely bypass the team managers that they've hired and appointed, subverting the authority of the managers and taking any faith away in the chain of command. As hard as you're working, you'll notice certain executives are just playing call of duty and watching youtube videos all day. Office morale is low since the company itself has a higher turnover number than its size can support. The working environment is highly nepotistic. Job postings themselves are a mishmash of buzzwords. Also, any company that has to list 'snacks', 'casual dress code', and 'paid public holidays' as 'perks' should raise some sort of red flag. A large number of employees have staked out neighboring cafes and public restrooms, since the ones located in the office are grossly inadequate. There was even a chart once to make sure that no two people were using the same public facility.

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BuzzBuzzHome Response
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Thank your for your feedback. I am sorry to hear about your experience at BuzzBuzzHome; it is disappointing to hear, and I do not think it is a representative experience or the morale of most people at BuzzBuzzHome. First I want to deal with your comment about picking up additional tasks that you were not hired to do, such as your example of “secretarial duties”. This is correct, and something that I am proud of. At heart we are still a startup, and we have not hired secretaries for any of our staff. As such, our staff are expected to write their own correspondences, answer their own phones, and write out their own memos. I have always liked the fact that everyone, from the most senior people to the most junior team members, answer phones, and help around the office. You raise some great points, which we are aware of and are working to fix, such as: 1. We only moved into our new office 6 months ago, and will be starting new washroom renovations next month; 2. We recently hired a new VP - Engineering and have created a product development team, so that “management” does not have to micro manage the development process. I am surprised that you had issues with our perks and benefits. We work really hard to create the best possible work environment, and through this we often cater meals, our office is always stocked with healthy snacks, soda, unlimited beer and wine, we have an incredible medical plan (which I see you liked, and hopefully you will thank us in the future for helping fight gum disease!), we have a great paid flex-day plan, a stock-option plan, and we offer very competitive salaries - just to name a few perks and benefits. We are always looking for ways to make our work environment better and more fun for our team. I am sorry that BuzzBuzzHome was not for you, and I wish you success in finding a position in a more corporate environment that is a better fit for you. Matthew Slutsky President / Co-founder, BuzzBuzzHome Corp.

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