Hamilton-Brown Reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)
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John Hamilton-Brown

64% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Hamilton-Brown has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hamilton-Brown employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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45 reviews
1.0
17 July 2018

The WORST company in the world?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I never have to go back

Cons

The bosses are there to crack the whip and it felt like they are pocketing millions from the misery, sweat and tears of their staff. Morale is really low there and all the good people were driven away by the appalling treatment they received. Benefits are terrible.

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Hamilton-Brown Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We appreciate you letting us know how you feel. Employee engagement is always a key priority . We run an annual employee engagement survey where we ask staff to provide feedback (anonymously) on a range of questions from working environment, to communication, remuneration and benefits and we take the results from the survey seriously and use the feedback to set our HR priorities. If you would like to provide further feedback on your experience, please do get in touch at hr@hamilton-brown.com
1.0
20 Aug 2021
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Pros

The majority of the designers were nice and good teamwork

Cons

Steer well clear of this company if you have any asperations to be a creative designer - you will just be formatting powerpoint presentations for dull corporate clients. All the "exciting" design work is given to the creative leads who are obnoxious and talentless. Don't be fooled by the work they post on Instagram or LinkedIn. These are just projects people do in downtime when there is no client work to do. They decided during the pandemic to make 20 people redundant as it was eating into their profits with no regard for anyone's career or livelihood. The majority were over the age of 30 (hmmm funny that) They kept cheaper and younger designers and promoted useless people into more senior positions. Very few females in management only the CEO's wife...Absolute shambles of an HR team who handled the redundancies like discarding trash.

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Hamilton-Brown Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are pleased to hear that you enjoyed working with the team at Hamilton-Brown and the collaborative environment that we pride ourselves on. Our designers are either based at our Studios (located in London and Bristol) or work on-site for one of our prestigious clients. Of course, like most businesses over the past 18 months, our designers have had to adapt and work from home during the pandemic, and adapt they have! We were very fortunate to have upgraded our IT systems in January 2020 which meant we were well placed to move seamlessly to working from home. As we move forward, Hamilton-Brown is looking at a hybrid model of mixing working from home and time in the Studio / on-site to ensure we continue to offer flexibility to all our employees whilst also maintaining collaborative working and social connections with colleagues and providing training opportunities. Our talented designers work with a variety of clients and the work encompasses digital, bespoke Adobe Creative Cloud design as well as MS Office Presentation work. Our designers have the opportunity to work across all areas of design and we encourage cross platform work to build our designers knowledge and skills, however we do also have specialist designers who focus on each of these areas. When we recruit designers we try to match individual’s skills and experience to the work of our clients and through our objective setting process look at employee’s goals and aspirations as well as areas for personal development and training opportunities. During the Coronavirus pandemic Hamilton-Brown, like many businesses up and down the country, did have to make some difficult decisions and as a result some of our employees were made redundant. In each instance, it was an extremely difficult decision and, as a business, it was a low point in our history. We do however remain in touch with our “HB alumni” and we are always delighted to hear how they are progressing in their new roles – be that travelling to the other side of the world, taking on a more senior role in design, or leaving design altogether and taking an entirely new career direction. Throughout the company we seek to hire and promote the best candidate for the job. We are proud of our diverse workforce and the gender balance of our organisation with 58% of our employees are female, our Management Team comprises three female Directors and all our Team and Account Leaders for our on-site clients are female. If you would like to provide further feedback please email us at hr@hamilton-brown.com.
2.0
3 Mar 2021

You decide

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Pros

Great opportunities to work on different projects and with various clients. Relevant training opportunities to enhance your skills.

Cons

Male dominate management structure. Not being able to complete a design project you started as projects are moved between designers. Lack of space in the studio.

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Hamilton-Brown Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are pleased that you enjoyed the opportunities presented at Hamilton-Brown to work on a variety of projects and with a variety of clients, and delighted that you recognise the training opportunities we provide. Recently, we have made changes to the ways we allocate and schedule projects across the design team in order to provide more continuity to see a project through from start to finish. Our team are seeing the benefits of these changes already. Throughout the company we seek to hire and promote the best candidate for the job. We are proud of the gender balance of our organisation: 58% of our employees are female, and 8 our of 11 current direct reports to the Managing Director are women. We do not tolerate bullying and would take any concerns raised to the management team extremely seriously. If you have any details which you feel able to share with us please do get in touch with hr@hamilton-brown.com
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