HORRIBLE COMPANY. DON'T GET ATTRACTED TO THE PACKAGE - Marketing Communications Specialist DS Smith Employee Review

1.0
10 Jan 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Standard market compensation and salary, travel, opportunity to grow, health and dental insurance, nothing else really, diverse staff, social coworkers

Cons

HORRIBLE work/life balance, too much politics, toxic staff and coworkers, HR is very biased and always secretive.. marketing department had 6 people come and go in one year (2016) for the same positions. There is one person in the marketing department that everyone hates. They make your life hell, super unorganized, don't know how to prioritize, will waste time on stupid things and then ask you to stay after hours to complete the work.. management keeps talking crap about other people with their own employees (how stupid). there are two marketing roles.. both roles do stupid kiddish work that even high schoolers can do. you don't learn anything at all. The management in the marketing department literally throws her phone on the table and the floor when they are angry. They use swear words for their coworkers and counterparts. They reveal secrets of other people in other department in anger and are always in the worst mood ever. You will never see a smile on their face. Has a horrrrrrible work life balance and expects the same from you.

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