Bananas: HR writes the positive reviews! - Anonymous employee Web Summit Employee Review

1.0
26 Sept 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The barista and the garden. And few nice people who keep their heads down cos they have bills to pay, which is fair enough.

Cons

The "largest" tech conference in the world. Yeah, right. Suspicious counting going on for sure and the company will be caught out eventually. The place is a frat house full of lies. Nothing more, nothing less. If you have morals, brains, ambitions - don't waste your time. Jobs here are dead end. The cons in a nutshell are the management. Never experienced anything quite like in all my working life. Don't pay any attention to the good reviews - they are written either by HR or by new starters. There are now around 60 reviews on here - that accounts for around 1/3 of the company and most of the reviews are bad, and the rest are fake. The company response to my review, like with the others, will be a disingenuous "we are shocked and surprised" line, and maybe they are, but more than likely nothing will change their ways. People have tried and failed. The leadership team love this bullying fearful playground of a company. The CEO who shouts at colleagues yet likes to wax lyrical about social issues while sacking people/doesn't renew contracts on a whim. The COO is a bully who is awesome at power-poses and calling women "girls" if he even acknowledges them in the first place. He actively sets unreachable targets so he can fire people for not hitting them.

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Pros

the events and the people are great.

Cons

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Pros

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Cons

It's a boys club, and many of the propaganda spewed by the CEO is to use managers as tokens of diversity. Managers are ill-prepared, and will eventually push you out - no matter how well you perform. You will go far if you are a rule follower, but that's about it. The role is one of a call center - you are expected to take on 15-18 meetings a day for 20 minutes each only to be at the bottom of the company. Do not expect to be taken seriously if you are apart of the Startups team. Also, tenure in the company supersedes results.

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