Avoid at all costs - Anonymous employee FISPAN Employee Review

1.0
28 June 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Previously good perks - Generally nice people

Cons

- There is very little transparency about why they laid people off. They never really announced it, put people just disappeared slowly for months until eventually they cut a bunch of people at once. I haven't gotten a clear answer from anyone on why those who were let go were let go. Some of it makes no sense and seemed to be like aimless cost cutting. - There is a core group here of staff who are favoured. If you get into this group, it is those who are actually promoted. This group however works way more than they should. It feels like this group is the teacher's pets except they are at work and they are all adults. - The compensation is really under market value, especially for the work being done. The benefits are laughable for anyone who actually has any health conditions. It feels like FISPAN's strategy is to hire young, desperate staff who will take a lot and take a bare minimum pay check when in reality, they are underpaid. They took away bonuses with short notice when many people use that money to supplement their income. No amount of equity makes it worth working at FISPAN when it is already clearly headed in a poor direction. - I haven't seen anyone say this yet, but the product itself can be flawed and flakey. It is embarrassing that we work with high level clients, name brand companies, yet FISPAN's product is so flawed. Having to defend the product to clients or try and come up with reasons why it behaves so strangely is embarrassing. Trying to get answers from people about issues requires asking like 20 different people and then you have to wait forever for the fix to be addressed. - Key teams are understaffed, overworked and burned out. - Everyone here is white.

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FISPAN Response
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Thank you for taking the time to give FISPAN feedback. FISPAN prides ourselves on being a company in which inclusivity is a key core value. FISPAN’S underrepresented groups stand at over 50% with an equal gender balance in our upper management team. We also encourage open communication between teams and their leaders. Whether that may be communicating burnout, job enrichment or the strive to take on more challenging tasks. We do this through our team meetings and 1:1 meetings with team leads. We encourage both top-down and bottom-up communication and transparency so that our leadership team can make more sound decisions and keep all employees informed. We are taking your feedback into consideration as we value the experiences of our FISPANers.

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