Struggling Alone in a Sea of Silence and False Promises - Office Manager Whalar Employee Review

1.0
29 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Should be a Pro finishing at 1pm on Fridays, but this never happens as the overload of work is huge - Opportunity to work from home whenever we want - It won the spot of one of the best companies to work in 2023. I wonder what employees replied to the survey as we were never asked what we think about working there.

Cons

- You can speak to HR about issues, they won't do anything. HR is for the company, not for the people - No clear career progression. Lacks structure on review cycles. - This year almost every week we have someone resigning. - The new hires already see the issues in the company and complain between them. - You work hours in a row, often not having time even to eat, if you want to at least finish work at 8pm. - Unrealistic targets. No bonus in the past year and only a reduced percentage amount of bonus paid in 2022. - They don't beat their own business targets and the blame is always on the people. - The pay is the minimum and they will do all they can not to offer you a raise, even after years in the company - Management keeps silent even after all your struggles and issues being raised. They won't fight for your rights as an employee because they prefer to get the promotion themselves. - You see the same people getting promoted all the time, while others work an incredible huge schedule, handle more than 6 projects at the same time and are still told they don't deserve a promotion "I wish I could help you. Not just yet, but keep doing your best, it will happen". - Most people that are promoted have English as their native language. - They have changed the structure of the company at least 3 times in 1.5 years. Changed roles without asking, changed teams without asking, made people redundant and still blame it on "being a startup". But they have the money for implementing new expensive ideas, that often end up like a failure. - They have the most amazing ideas to implement into the business, which costs millions and millions of dollars and keep bragging about this, but refuse to give a promotion so they don't need to pay 5k on top of a few salaries in a year. - Only the same people are put on projects which have the potential to expand into travelling to a different country to present or get to know a client. You see the same people travelling abroad in the company and having the most amazing experiences. - You see the same people always attending to events and receiving awards. - It is a sad environment, everyone pretends to be happy during team meetings, but we can't wait for the time to leave for good. - I read their reply here to a commenter saying that the company has evolved since their comment... It did not, it only got worse and if they sent an anonymous questionnaire to understand what the people really think, they would know.

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Cons

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1.0
5 Aug 2025
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Pros

- genuine coworkers who care about what they're doing - billed as remote-first - flexible scheduling

Cons

- entirely disorganized mess under the hood - leadership has absolutely no idea what they're doing and have created a demand-driven culture where only results matter and time and process are non-existent concerns - I mentioned remote-first as a pro, but apparently the moment you aren't able to meet your coworkers or attend an event, even with legitimate reasons, you are no longer seen as a real team member - middle management does not know how to manage their direct reports - the organization is split between a few countries, and they've been that way since the early days. you would think that would mean they would know how to work across timezones and sync/async properly, but that's far from the truth. I had even asked members of the people team about this and they also expressed the same concerns. - at least in my experience, there was no real onboarding and no a available documentation to help learn about the company/product teams. it made for a very uncomfortable experience. - pay scale is way lower than expected especially in the US

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