Exposure Ninja Reviews

I have a great deal I could say about my negative experience at this company, but I'll focus what I feel is most important for others considering a role here; Pay The pay at this company is incredibly low and the lowest I've ever received in my professional career even taking into consideration my first job after graduating university. The reason for this is they use a salary metric calculated from payscale.com, which might sound well and good, but often the pay packet is at the lowest end of that scale for your position. Which in turn could mean you work at this company for 5 years before achieving the average pay packet for skills/position that you could more easily achieve elsewhere. Internally staff have been pushing for wages that reflect their responsibility and skills but the brass are unwilling to budge on their current stance which is "we are over the minimum wage for your position". Remote Working You may be able to work remotely at this company but it is incredibly isolating and really takes a strong mindset to be able to work like this way. Add to that fact that the company offers nothing towards equipment costs even for their permanent work staff. If your laptop or pc packs up you simply cannot work and they will do nothing to assist you with cost towards wear and tear put on your personal equipment. The day to working in this way can be a struggle, management at this company is incredibly closed-minded towards change and improvement of their current systems or ways of working (the majority of which is dictated by a faceless checklist system of work). Working Conditions When there are issues or concerns from employees they often fall on deaf ears, I've never worked somewhere where the empathy towards employees is so none-existent, they preach an internal mantra that they "care about our Ninjas" when the reality is quite the opposite. The care seems to be on the mood of the manager at the time, I have personally experienced outbursts of anger and beratement from management that have been entirely professional and unprovoked. And when escalating this incident to higher management it was as if my concerns were being processed by that of a stonecold robot, devoid of human emotion.

They are primarily SEO based company yet advertised a web dev job at 30 - 40 hours per week. Why they advertised the job like this I have no idea, they should have been straight up with me about how little web dev they will have as soon as I started. They said they don’t mind if I get other work although they should have said expect to look for other work. Thinking I was going into a 30 – 40 hour a week job, of course I was going to slow down looking for other work. They hurt me financially as there were gaps of no communication when I submitted work for review, and I had to start asking about it. They should have been honest from the beginning and even though said they advertised the job as 30 – 40 hours a week. It could very well not turn out like that. I was even on a trial period which I didn’t know about when I started. When I asked about starting my second project, as I had sat nearly a week with no commination - that’s when I found out I was on a trial period of one website. Here was me thinking I had started a 30/40 hour a week job. Being told I was on something for 3 months and then I’d even get a pay rise (I probably worked into the start of my 5th month and heard nothing about that). Did they think this one website was going to be a 3-month job? I was puzzled how to how their system looked set up to assign me new work, but I had to ask for it. Then finding out I was on some trial period. I believe the communication was the biggest let down as I had to keep asking about areas. When I first got my link to go train, I wasn’t told exactly where to start. So, I ended up missing areas that were vital. I didn’t track in 1 of the 2 places I was supposed to for my first 2 sites. After speaking to the General Manager about how I was in the dark with no communication about future work etc. My project manager eventually gave me some excuse about how they changed their sales tactics and they weren't getting enough leads which just seems like a spin. I assume they had an influx of website work over Xmas, advertised for a position and then didn't get as much work as they thought. Drip feeding me some as I asked, eventually just being forgotten about, I got told I was getting moved onto fixed price jobs, and then heard nothing. Eventually having my accounts deleted. Even when I tried to talk to other people higher up and have a conversation about this, I got the feeling they didn't care. They just listened and moved on with their job. Not even a follow up. Seems like a nice company to work for but I didn’t get that experience as a freelancer so be careful if you are one. If you are involved in SEO you might have a better experience, but they shouldn’t have advertised the job to me as they did. Maybe move away from the ninja stereotype. It would be better to see companies that are focused more on the honesty of how they work with better organisation and communication instead of their look that’s a cringey trope.