Proceed with caution: You’ll learn a lot but it comes with an extreme price. - Anonymous employee VSC Employee Review

2.0
19 Aug 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent incentives, work from anywhere, friendly coworkers, tons of transferable skills that will help you in your next step in your career, hands-on CEO, above average compensation for the market.

Cons

Cons: Diversity and DEI work are significant issues here. There is also an HR problem. Firstly there is no real HR "department" here, only one employee with limited hours. If they are the issue, it intimidates employees to report anything that makes the workplace harmful without fear of retaliation. During my time there, employees of color were forced to craft presentations on their culture on top of regular work duties. If not, their culture would not be represented at all. It's not BIPOC employees' job to do the diversity work for you. Hire someone with DEI training to help better relay messages surrounding race and culture within the workplace. Now, it takes more than just the 100k pledge; it takes hiring more Black and Brown employees in leadership positions. Management is also very pushy to junior staff. Although you will learn a lot because of this, it can get overwhelming to perform and produce results without your leaders' help. The junior staff is completely overworked with low morale because of this. Overall, my time at the company has taught me a lot about the business in a short time simply because every position wears multiple hats and are tasked with a broad scope of functions. You learn many malleable skills that will advance your career in a short amount of time.

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Thank you for your candor and specific details about your experience at VSC. We’re glad to hear that you learned a lot and will be able to advance your career because of it! By design, we’ve structured the agency to align with the way our clients in early stage tech companies work. This means our team has the chance to learn what they won’t learn in other places until much later in their career. It isn’t always easy and requires a willingness to fail and try again. We strive to have policies in place that create a supportive culture for this, but also acknowledge that it isn’t an environment that fits everyone. We encourage our team to celebrate their backgrounds and perspectives so that we can all have a richer understanding of the world. We don’t specifically seek out our BIPOC team members or expect any one group of people to do the heavy lifting of educating the world about their experiences. Contrary to more traditional thinking, we believe HR/performance is best handled in every day feedback loops between employees and their leads and direct managers. In addition, each of our five Partners are available to support any team member with guidance on internal or external issues. They work across 3 time zones so that someone can always be reached. Our Head of People is there to create policies that champion our team’s needs and hold us all accountable for reaching our individual and collective goals.

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