Silverbean Reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(87 total reviews)
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Neil Robbins

72% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Silverbean has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 87 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silverbean 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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87 reviews
1.0
22 Dec 2024

Don’t Recommend - Toxic

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Pros

- Good agency, quality service and focus on strong client delivery - Lots of colleagues friendly, tight knit community - Good social events - Increasing prioritisation of CSR and volunteering to give back - I love Flexi work and ability to work from anywhere

Cons

- Delivery Team continually stretched incredibly thin. High pressure, high demands, high workloads - Management often seem to never care about wellbeing of staff. - Number rating system - every month you are ranked from 1-5. 5 is near impossible to get, most people just a 3. It feels impersonal and a rather statistical inhumane system which decreases moral. - Bullying and gossip culture - personally I have struggled with people within the team and has lead to ongoing bullying, mental health issues and loss of confidence. - Strict and overly structured - the internal team has lots of deadlines (ie. reporting deadlines), extensive policies, structures and is inflexible about these. Often the policies and deadlines are too rigid (more than they should be). - Pay - not competitive compared to similar companies in industry, not great. - Redundancy culture - management will remind you of this and how they have made people redundant. - High turnover - Management are often are under equiped and don’t know how to personalise their management style or communication to different people depending on their personality, needs, or inappropriately react appropriately to certain situations. - Limited acknowledgement, unfair reward system/ difficult recognition system - even where you perform well or receive glowing client feedback, it’s a fight to get noticed. You are heavily reliant on your manager to push for you or your colleagues to vote you for awards (popularity). - Fan Favourites - Consistently visible throughout the company. This is never acknowledged by management. Always same people winning awards and voted for them (usually friends with management) and given leniency on workloads.

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Silverbean Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your honest and valuable feedback with us. We truly appreciate you taking the time to express your concerns and experiences at the Agency. It’s great to hear the pros you experience at the Agency including strong client delivery, your friendly colleagues and the CSR work the team have been completing. You have listed a number of cons in your review that we would like to address: First of all we always take allegations of bullying extremely seriously and all reports of bullying are investigated in line with our grievance policy and addressed in a timely manner. We want to assure you that we do not have a redundancy culture. Our goal is to strategically manage our resources to ensure team stability and avoid unnecessary redundancies. We are concerned by your statement that some members of the management team have mentioned redundancies. We will speak to you separately on this and address it directly with the individuals involved. We value the well-being of all our employees and are committed to creating a supportive and healthy work environment. As this is a priority of ours we will reach out for more specifics on this from you. You have suggested that we have management training, we are pleased to notify you that we restarted our people management training in November. Our performance management system is designed to provide constructive feedback, recognise high performance, and identify areas for growth and development. Thank you for your feedback on pay and recognition, we will be communicating our new pay and recognition policy in our All Hands meeting at the end of this month. Simplifying processes and improving efficiency are key priorities for us this year. We are actively working on initiatives to streamline our workflows and enhance productivity. We encourage you to reach out to a member of the People Team or the SMT team if you have any further questions or would like to discuss these matters further. The People Team
3.0
5 Dec 2023

Too Stressful

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, great culture with constant trainings provided for personal development.

Cons

Growing fast has led to heavy workload, many deadlines and regular reportings are making people stressful, difficult for work-life balance.

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Silverbean Response
2y
Hi! Thank you for your review and highlighting your concerns, being a great place to work is taken very seriously by us. We know through employee feedback that changes on accounts have led to increased workloads for some employees. We're confident it is only short term while employees learn how to work on these accounts. We will continue to monitor workloads monthly through our productive data and our workload question in performance reviews and make changes where we need to. We're glad to hear that you thought we had a great culture and enjoyed training, as developing our people is really important to us. Best wishes, People and Development Team
5.0
7 Nov 2021

A genuine culture of care

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Pros

I've worked here for a few years and it's hands down one of the best places I've worked. The company genuinely do care about everyone here - and I've learnt that's the most important thing about a business, if they genuinely care about their staff they will do the right thing. There's loads of perks - unlimited holidays are amazing, flexible working and the team are all really lovely! The company is massively growing at the moment too so is really exciting to be part of that growth!

Cons

As the team is growing so quickly it's hard to keep up with who everyone is! We have Slack to keep in touch, but is always nice to put a face and a person to a new email address.

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Silverbean Response
4y
Hi Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are glad you are happy in your place of work and we will continue to keep everyone connected within the business. It it important to us that we can continue to grow as well as keeping everyone engaged with each other so everyone is involved in what we do. Regards People and Development Team
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