Not as good once you start working here - Anonymous employee Pabau Employee Review

1.0
17 May 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the people are nice and hardworking, but management doesn't know how to keep them.

Cons

• I feel bad for people who have high expectations when they enter the company because at first everybody thinks it's great only to later realize that's not the case. • Worst thing is that management sometimes shows signs of wanting to do something about it but nothing comes out off their "efforts". • I agree with the comment that a lot of mansplaining is happening at this company. Male employees are given praise and encouragement while the women not so much. • The said flexible hours are only available for selected employees. They said that they would allow hybrid work and only some people got the chance to work that way. • Low salaries in all departments. Unlike other companies they rarely increase salaries after 3-6 months of working here. It's forbidden to talk about your salary with colleagues because of course that way the inconsistencies will be uncovered. • A lot of these negative reviews are written by current employees, don't let them convince you otherwise. Employees are dissatisfied and angry at the management. • Out of all competent HRs in Macedonia they decided to employ the worst one - doesn't act the role and gets a weird joy out of sacking employees. Doesn't know how to talk and listen to them, and is unpleasant. • When your review is due they will make sure that they critcize your work so that if you ask for a raise, they'd have reasons to deny it. • A lot of burnout happening among employees, not because of work but because of all the mental stress.

Pabau Response
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Hi - thanks for taking the time to review working at Pabau. Firstly, to any potential employee reading this, please take time to engage with our current employees or come and visit our HQ over at the Aerodrome if you have an interview, where you will see the reality of working at Pabau, you will soon see it is not as this 'employee' is describing. Please note; most of these reviews are from employees who no longer work with us, or are underperforming and are part of a targeted campaign against Pabau. Reviewer; to respond to your points directly:- We have recently implemented the people forum, where we respond and act directly on employee feedback, this has seen at least 10 changes implemented in the past 3 months, direct from our teams. We are in the process of implementing hybrid working, department by department, and we expect this to be fully rolled out in the next couple of months, developers/sales/marketing/recruitment are now hybrid. Our salaries are benchmarked against all other companies in Macedonia and we are comfortable that they are attractive The negative reviews that you advise are left by current employees does not match the reality on the ground, I am more than happy to speak to any employee about issues they may have with a view of making changes where they are required, however, you will find that the negative reviews are part of a wider smear camapign generally from underperforming employees or people who we have let go. Again, the people who have issues with our HR, and generally those who sit in the camp I mentioned above, our engaged employees feedback how great our HR is. All staff raises are done based on job level, as part of a full performance review.

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