Fast tracked growth, Areas of Improvement - Lead Graphic Designer Retrospec Employee Review

3.0
2 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing, supportive team with lack of ego to uplift each other. Lower-level employees are collaborative, open to change and looking for opportunities to improve their work and workflow. Lots of opportunity for fast tracked growth to expand your skill set. In a start-up setting, there's a lot of room to work cross functionally with different teams. Senior management recognizes flaws and has a want to improve. With the past year of change and lots of sale, the company is in a good position for growth with more insight in how to lead campaigns with more structure.

Cons

Lack of trust and communication from senior management. Micromanaging of time in office when productivity or quality of work wasn't in question. The claim to a fun, chill work environment is created by the lower-level team. The office culture is shifted around upper management. Lack of vision and planning for marketing campaigns. Communication to lower-level team seemed short sighted and created rushed deadlines. At times there was a sense of incompetence in how to apply data and sales initiatives or it was a fixation of numbers. This would sometimes create unnecessary stress on the team trying to appease the seniors. Lack of training and resources from managers to grow successfully. While every employee can take initiative and take on more responsibility to climb in their position, it's often without managerial expertise. Senior management was disconnected from the team emotionally and created an impersonal barrier that made the team feel unsupported and unappreciated. This came from seniors having too much on their plates to be able to build relationships, trust and respect with the lower level team. And in tandem, benefits were below average. Poor health/vision/dental insurance with little coverage and no 401k matching. PTO is average, but accrued slowly, few holidays recognized, barely any sick time, and no mental health days recognized.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Ok pay, and provided appropriate materials to perform job.

Cons

Everyone is treated as if they are indebted to their jobs, Every single second and action are monitored, scrutinized and micromanaged as if stepping outside to answer a personal phone call is stealing from the company. It’s a sit down, shut up, and prove to me you’re worthy of us paying you this week type of environment. Everyone is disposable at any time. Many people in and out in 1-6 months either getting fired or deciding to leave on own.

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