Toxic departmental leads, bullying and with no resolution - Manager Flexion Employee Review

1.0
18 June 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Supportive Colleagues: There are a few supportive individuals within various teams who help maintain sanity amidst the toxic environment. They might check in on you, but they’ll also admit that not much will be done to address the issues senior leads and behaviours. Industry Exposure: Working with top brands and developer partners is a plus, but building meaningful relationships with them is challenging. The company’s sole focus on revenue often leads to unethical practices, disregarding the necessary steps to achieve goals responsibly. Frequent Restructuring: While restructuring and reorganization are frequent, they rarely make sense. Management decision making is seemly driven by ego by ignoring warning evidence provided, often ignoring industry standards and best practices to follow their misguided strategies and doubling down on toxic plans. Core Values Misaligned: The company claims to prioritize its core values, but this is not reflected in practice, especially not at the senior management level. Revenue remains the primary focus, overshadowing any real commitment to values.

Cons

Toxic Culture: The toxic culture within the company is overwhelming, as reflected in the recent spate of negative reviews. Despite a few positive reviews trying to deflect criticism, the core issues persist, largely unaddressed. Writing this review is a last resort after previous reviews failed to provoke any meaningful action or discussion within the company. Senior management and the general manager have doubled down on their dismissive attitude, promoting individuals with numerous HR complaints instead of addressing the issues. Ineffective Management: Senior management and the general manager consistently ignore staff and HR escalations furthermore have failed to take any meaningful action in response to previous reviews. Instead of addressing concerns, they double down on their mistakes, promoting individuals with multiple HR complaints. This approach has led to a culture of fear and self-resignation among staff, who feel that leaving is their only option to avoid further bullying, mental health decline, or damage to their professional reputation. Lack of Support: Employees feel neglected and unheard. The continuous belittling in meetings and the vindictive atmosphere are detrimental to mental health and professional reputation. Unfair Compensation: Salaries are not competitive, and discussing pay is actively discouraged. New hires often earn more than long-standing employees, yet still below market standards. Bonus distribution is opaque and inconsistently communicated. The trend of negative reviews highlights recurring issues that remain unaddressed. Prospective employees should be cautious about joining this company.

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4.0
24 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They have a "low-bureaucracy" approach internally. VERY VERY low. If that's a pro for you, then you might be a great fit here. Employees are encouraged to take ownership and there's a high bias for decentralized control and decision-making, which is really awesome and refreshing. The leadership in the company care tremendously about running a company the right way and it shows. You are fully-empowered (and solely responsible for) to manage and facilitate your career growth and skills development.

Cons

The overall revenue model of the company combined with the company's compensation model leaves very little room for compensation growth over one's tenure--for the most part. This may not be a problem for some, but it's not likely to be conveyed during your interview cycle. No 401k matching. Health insurance offerings get noticeably more expensive every year, often resulting in a net paycut for some employees depending on your situation. When times are tough and new work (new contracts with clients) isn't abundant, you are more tied to the lifetime of the contract you are currently on. There have been several rounds of layoffs recently where it's unclear as to the specific details of how one gets chosen to survive the layoffs or not. This results in degraded morale and FUD. Those who don't do well with self-governance and ownership tend not to perform as well as others. The company's revenue mix is still heavily weighted towards government contracts and that can be a real rollercoaster depending on what's going on in government at any given time....

2.0
29 Oct 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

OK if you have no other options, HO in the past. Diversity

Cons

They offer a low, but OK salary at first, but after that, basically employees get NO raises for YEARS. Managers are manipulative and very short tempered, the way some of them speak to their teammates is outrageous. There’s also no repercussion towards the managers and because of that the employees suffer a lot. The only good benefit they HAD (past tense) was the generous home office opportunity, but they also took that away even though the office is too small to accomodate all emloyees. They do not understand that not having to commute to work 1-2 hours half a week is a benefit and NOT laziness. If they can’t pay an average salary or have raises or bonuses then AT LEAST save me the commute time. The technologies used are getting outdated as well, the management is very old fashioned (even though they try to make it seem like they are up-to-date; they are not). Everything is slow and the work environment is so toxic that it’s hard to wake up every day and face another day of work at this company. I would have said that the work-life balance is not bad, but sadly some managers do not respect that either and WILL wake you up as early as 7AM if they feel like it. All in all, my time at the company was waisted.

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