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Mirren Business Development Reviews

2.0

22% would recommend to a friend

(68 total reviews)

Brent Hodgins

22% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

Mirren Business Development has an employee rating of 2.0 out of 5 stars, based on 68 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The Mirren Business Development employee rating is 46% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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68 reviews
1.0
29 Dec 2014

Difficult Experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Occasional company lunches and outings, casual dress, modern furniture and technology, good opportunity to wear many different hats as the company is quite small and understaffed.

Cons

Very difficult culture to navigate. Some great people working here, but management is abrasive and abusive. Tendency to place blame on others, throw employees under the bus, overreact to small challenges, and make every task extremely urgent in priority. Does not take feedback well, and only gives feedback when it's negative. Workload is intense and often serves no purpose as management wants final say in every decision. Don't expect much autonomy, flexibility, positive feedback, or camaraderie here. Environment shows signs of stress, and employee turnover is very high.

1.0
30 Sept 2014

Worst Job Ever.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I made lasting friendships here in NYC due to being in a "Mirren Support Network" after going through the traumatic experiences there. Seattle, heed the warnings you read on this page.

Cons

It pains me to see the "positive" reviews on here, which are clearly fake and written by the 1-person management team. BEWARE JOB SEEKERS - This job really IS as bad as my former colleagues and I are describing. There is a complete lack of professionalism at Mirren. You won't learn a single thing that will prepare you for working at a good company. The management screams, throws things, belittles employees, name-calls, and disparages your work. Working there is akin to being in a well-decorated loony bin. Mirren hires people who have one thing in common: Desperation. When I worked there, management made us take a psychological test to determine how "dominant" we were -- because Mirren only hires submissive people. Among the WORST things about this workplace is that you will not better yourself. You won't leave this company knowing more about your career, or having built any confidence or gained any valuable skills. In fact, it will be quite the opposite. This job will hurt you professionally, and will hold you back from your own success. Employees are so unhappy in this environment, and it' s a revolving door of employee turnover. When you get there you meet the manager's relatives and friends from childhood whom he passes off as his "employees who love it there". It's a scam. Real employees do not usually last more than a couple months. There are truly serious issues at this workplace. I am writing this in hopes it will protect people from having to go through what I had to endure. So no matter how much money Mirren offers you, when you just start to think "But I'm different, I can handle it, I'm tough, and I so desperately need a job"......just remember this: YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

1.0
1 June 2018

Smoke and Mirrors

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The office is nice and in a great location in Ballard.

Cons

- Worst professional experience I've had in my ten year career - Consistent turnover, two years at the company is the longest tenure in the office - Environment is hostile, every employee is miserable and looking to leave - Management frequently encourages employees by saying 'they hired a company full of over achievers' and that everyone has 'grit' - to manipulate them - I learned absolutely nothing, I think my brain atrophied - The day-to-day inefficiencies are mind-boggling - I was publicly screamed at by the CEO onsite at an event and it was never dealt with because there is no HR If you want to develop, be inspired, work smart and advance your career - I would not recommend applying here. **Many of these Glassdoor reviews were written by the CEO and forcibly posted by current employees. The tone is the same throughout (the CEO's) and the 'CONS' are not real cons, they are respectable requirement at most companies; attention to detail, being organized and driven. They have been twisted it to make it seem like the employees that have negative things to say about Mirren on Glassdoor, didn't embody those attributes and couldn't keep up (didn't pay attention to detail, weren't organized or driven). This was clearly done to balance out all of the negative reviews.

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Mirren Business Development Response
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Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. I am sorry to see how disappointed you are. This was shared with our team, so everyone could understand how you feel. It’s important we learn from this perspective as we work hard to be a great place to work. You make a fair point about some of our inefficiencies. In particular, we’re working to reduce the number of meetings. As a smaller company of eighteen people, we don’t always have the resources of a much larger organization. I appreciate your feedback on this. We are proud of the tenure of our team though. Almost half have been with us for more than five years, some more than nine years, and new people joining to accommodate our growth. And finally, to provide the full context, it was agreed fairly early on that it wasn’t an ideal fit. There were some issues that included project follow through, working cooperatively with others, and a complaint from one of our largest event sponsors. Even with this, we provided an extended period of work to cover the transition while you were actively job hunting. Most importantly though, it wasn’t a good fit. And for that I am sorry. I wish you the best in your next role. With appreciation, Brent Hodgins Managing Director
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