The most toxic environment, full of lies and ‘frat boys’ mentality - Account Executive FareHarbor Employee Review

1.0
11 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The Wework office in Sydney was lovely Other employees are really nice

Cons

The worst management style I have ever come across. The entire senior level of fareharbor is a complete boys club and unless your mates with one of them (or sleeping with one of them) you have no chance of promotion. The Sydney office is ruled by an actual dictatorship (2 persons put in a complaint against said person and received termination letters the following day - how is that allowed!?) Base pay is shockingly low, and the commission is a total fake promise. Other companies (that you have to work to get live) pay your wages because FH are too tight to fork out any money to keep good employees. There are absolutely no employee benefits (no healthcare, bonus scheme, NOTHING) apart from a single box of fruit to the office once a week. Managers will lie to you to try and push you to get clients live so that if you leave they can retain the profit that YOU earnt. Terrible terrible culture of ‘dwifting’ (doing whatever the f it takes) which basically gives the expectation that employees should work ridiculous hours in return for the occasional pizza or beer funded by FH.

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FareHarbor Response
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Hi there, thank you for your feedback, apologies for our delayed response. We take all feedback positively and welcome opportunities to help drive our business in the right direction and improve our employee experience. To address some of your concerns regarding the makeup of our leadership team in our Sydney office. At present, our leadership team is 60% female including our Regional General Manager and we pride ourselves in allowing everyone the opportunity to grow within the organisation, something we are pleased to see. To provide some clarity surrounding the remuneration package, this is calculated based on the analysis provided to us by Mercer, a market leader in remuneration analysis using similar industry averages. We then provide employees with an opportunity to earn an uncapped commission on top of the base salary to make up the overall remuneration package. Furthermore, we have been listening to what both our current employees and former employees have been saying over the past year and taking those concerns on board. We have made a concerted effort to implement initiatives to increase employee engagement, improve our office culture and the overall employee experience. Thank you for your feedback, without this we wouldn’t have been able to make the changes that we have! If you have any further questions, concerns or feedback to share, please feel free to reach out to us directly at hr.apac@fareharbor.com.

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