Squiz Reviews

Pros

- Nice open plan office, where you can easily walk round and chat to people... or fire a nerf gun at them.

- Lot's of different work - It's not the same work day-in-day-out, every project is different. We have so many clients, meaning we get so many different projects coming through. My favourites are the single page apps, where I get to use ReactJS!

- Awesome fridge with beer and wine... people love that in the evenings, especially Friday!

- People are actually encouraging!! That's a rare thing I've found with my previous employers. You feel that people are grateful for your work.... they actually thank you and say "well done! good job!". It isn't vital but you certainly enjoy the day-to-day more when it happens.

- Cool benefits, like the health fund (300 bucks a year to spend on anything healthy! ... I went with running trainers and a yoga mat)

- Around the office people are.....pleasant! It's in the 'Squiz DNA' ....'Don't be a jerk', which you can see when talking to people in general. I feel like everyone's approachable and friendly. I've never had a falling out with anyone at the office.

- Whenever you fancy a ping pong game, you can just step away and get super competitive for 10 minutes, which really helps with the post lunch coma on some days.

- Lot's of career progression - if you're willing to choose to be positive, be brave, take ownership of new, unknown and scary looking projects, then there are great leaders there who will see that and will want to raise you up to new and greater roles & responsibilities. The company structure isn't stagnant, they're usually looking for ways to mov things around and improve the structure, so there's frequently new internal roles available. I've always felt supported by the leadership in my career progression.

- Regular Squiz paid social events.... definitely want to stick around for when pizza is ordered!

- We do timesheets here at Squiz, which a lot of people don't like. You might not believe me but..... I think the timesheets are a good thing and actually help me!! You can document where you've spent your hours so nobody is glaring at you if you need to leave at 4pm. It totally supports our flexibility. I don't feel any negativity in taking a 2 hour lunch break as long as I chalk in an extra hour somewhere else in the week. This is unlike other companies I have worked for, which have a culture that slowly drifts into expecting you to work 9 hours a day but you only get paid for 7.5.

- Squiz is willing to pay for an awesome team lunch every now and again :)

Pros

I made good friends.

Advice to Management

Implement a proper structure, lead by example, invest.

Pros

- nice people
- table tennis / friday drinks
- relaxed atmosphere
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Pros

They have some good staff the and good beer fridges and a range of interesting projects to work on.

Advice to Management

Complete some of the ideas first before having 100s more

Pros

- I even can't think of one

Advice to Management

Admit you need help. Stop acting like a boys club and listen to your staff. Stop calling us 'Squizzers' and actually remember the names of the people who carry this company.

Pros

Start up feel when I first started working.
Ok level of flexibility but not on par with magic quadrant alternatives
Some really good opportunities for entry level folks entering the work force but if you're a gun look elsewhere.

Advice to Management

Be totally transparent and look outside the box

Pros

Senior management are top notch and really care about the company. This flows down to most employees with pretty good attitudes throughout the organisation. They have many offices scattered around the place so chance to work with people form different locations.

Advice to Management

The company needs to look around the industry a bit more to keep up with trends.

Pros

Fantastic fun group of people to work with that make everyone happy to come to work. There are a lot of people working hard to make the company better.

Advice to Management

Work out the pay situation before more staff move on. Skilling people up on Matrix implementation is not an easy investment to make!

Pros

An amazing group of peers

Pros

Management allow a lot of flexibility to those that demonstrate that they deliver outcomes and meet deadlines. Flexibility like working from home/part-time hours/compressed hours etc are an industry standard which Squiz embrace. For some staff clearer deliverables need to be provided whether they are working from home or in the office.
Very social, friendly and supportive.

Advice to Management

You are doing a great job - keep it up.