A workplace filled to the brim with favouritism, racism, sexism, and outrageous unprofessionalism. - Business Development Cognism Employee Review

I worked at Cognism for a year and the facade of being part of a thriving and inclusive workplace quickly disappeared. The general style of management is to praise high performers and ply them with compliments and alcohol but scarcely provide a route for advancing their career or any scope for growing their skills. The entire culture created by senior management has replicated a sales office in the 80s: - Senior management is a complete joke . They are far more preoccupied with being liked than actually doing their jobs and instead end up perpetuating discrimination across the team and playing favourites almost everyday. - Sexism is a HUGE problem in the company; women are continuously objectified and also denied career opportunities. The workplace often resembles a university rugby team preparing for a night out. Hook up culture and relationships between employees has created not only an incestuous environment, but one where you manage to snag preferential treatment if you're involved with senior management. - Casual and blatant racism is an endemic across the company - anyone who speaks out runs the risk of being ridiculed by management and damaging any chance of progression within the team. The company is clearly one which hires to only fill a diversity quota instead of actually creating an inclusive workplace environment. - You are left out of the Cognism circle if you don't partake in heavy drinking and/or sucking up to senior management. If you don't have the skills or suitability for senior positions and also adhere to management's style of not training people and treating them like sales machines instead of human beings - you'll probably be promoted. Refrain from having an opinion, meet your target by any means possible, don't object to any offensive remarks, and do whatever management tells you to do without a second thought, that's Cognism's motto. In short, if you are white, male, middle/upper class, love alcohol and drugs, and completely lack a moral backbone - Cognism is the place for you.