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Enterprise Nation Reviews

3.9

64% would recommend to a friend

(17 total reviews)

66% positive business outlook

Enterprise Nation has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 17 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Enterprise Nation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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17 reviews
2.0
20 Apr 2023

Dont come here unless you like egos and bullies

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Hard working team. The founder isnt afraid to get her hands dirty.

Cons

High turnover of staff. Really low morale. Too many egos 'Mean girl' senior managers. A COO with no operations experience, on a constant power trip. A bully CMO with no people skills. Bullies and belittles people. Is only in the role as freinds with the founder. Bad tempered and arrogant CTO, loves to intimidate people, wont listen to anyone that criticises his website.

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Enterprise Nation Response
3y
Thank you for your review of your experience of working with Enterprise Nation. It's vital for us as a rapidly growing company to see honest feedback, although we would love it if you could speak to us about it – there’s still time! Being honest as well, seeing it on here makes us feel quite sad, especially those individuals you have called out. But we appreciate these are difficult conversations to have face-to-face. While the points of view you have listed are quite personal, we will certainly take these points on board and consider how we come across. As a female-founded and led business, it’s so hard to get the balance right and perhaps we have to work on that. As a business, Enterprise Nation has experienced a period of enormous and unprecedented growth and the economic climate has made the support we offer to the UK’s small business community more important than ever. It’s a complicated landscape that’s constantly changing. 2022 was another record year for company registrations in the UK and our own research has found a third of all adults are considering starting a business this year. They need us and the support programmes we offer. They need to know they can rely on us to guide them through. Meeting these needs has been an intense journey for the team and not always enjoyable. We’ve had to recruit and expand our team dramatically and as part of that productivity drive, we’ve had to also increase accountability in order to meet demand. That can be tough. As you point out – we're a hard-working team. There’s absolutely no question about that. We can’t afford not to. We hope you’ll see this for what it is – an open invitation to chat.
1.0
18 Oct 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The work done for the small business community is incredible. Supporting entrepreneurs is at the forefront of their beliefs. There are some really lovely individuals in the company. CEO is very happy to get stuck in and involved with projects which is great to see.

Cons

- Chaotic place of work. - Really high turn over staff - lots of them resign without jobs to go through. - Very little care for staff wellbeing or mental health. A internal survey once showed that staff felt that the company did/do not care about the mental health and wellbeing of their staff, EN did not do anything about this and it was overlooked entirely. - Zero onboarding process. You are pretty much handed a laptop and expected to crack on. - Very cliquey SMT with can often feel very intimidating. - High level of micro-management throughout the business. - Have very little idea about HR processes. - Expect results yesterday when sometimes realistically that isn't always achievable. - Expect staff to be mind readers - very little direction given.

2.0
23 Mar 2023

Former Employee

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The work they do is good for the small business community.

Cons

The workplace culture is terrible- praised for overworking, emails at 4 in the morning from managers, only care about direct immediate results which isn’t possible for long term goals/solutions. The managers are cliquey and have no idea what they’re doing- feels like they’re on a complete power trip. Fire people who are on probation with no warning and no prior feedback, let alone a probation plan, which is completely unprofessional.

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Enterprise Nation Response
3y
Firstly, thank you for letting us know how you feel. As a small business we do have to focus on both immediate and long-term goals and results, all in balance. Enterprise Nation has grown rapidly in order to support more businesses that need our help to start and grow. The economic climate has made the grants, programmes, events and mentoring we offer to the UK’s small business community are more important than ever. It’s a constantly changing position. We have to be adaptable and move quickly. That has meant we’ve had to grow our team, bringing in new talent and really focusing on what is working and what is not. As part of that growing phase, we’ve tried new things. But there are always going to be decisions not everyone agrees with. We get that and we hope we have been clear and fair along the way. To address your point about emails at dawn – we admit it! There are times when we send early emails, hands up. This is not regarded as a badge of honour by the way, more a sign of busy team with a life outside the business and the ability to be flexible. Yes, we do applaud that.
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