The Ortus Club Reviews

2.9

52% would recommend to a friend

(125 total reviews)

59% positive business outlook

The Ortus Club has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 125 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The The Ortus Club employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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125 reviews
1.0
13 Oct 2022

Read this, you will thank us later.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They provide laptop. That's all.

Cons

If you’re looking up on the Internet about this company, you should feel very lucky that you found these reviews. And if you really want to know more about this very superficial company, keep reading. You will thank us later. Firstly, they’re gonna invite you for a trial week, which is by the way, a very bad training scheme. You will be basically taught for a week haphazardly then will get tossed on a project. “Fed to the sharks” would be an apt phrase for it. They will throw you in at the deep end and give you lots of responsibility early on. They would just expect you to know everything in a week, which by the way is very impossible because you will have to learn a lot of tools, and by a lot, I mean a WHOLE LOT. And then your team leader would flip out when you make a simple mistake. They will question your thought process and gaslight you because you can’t do the job right. They will tell you to “work smart not hard,” but with the nature of the work it is impossible to not work outside work hours unless you want to risk failing and have everything fall on you. Secondly, they will force you to come to the office and yet it's up to you how to get there. Doesn't matter if you spend how much on your Grab everyday for one-way, you just get to the office. Some of the senior employees constantly talk about how “it was so much harder before” and don’t like acknowledging that many people are not like them (rich and spoiled brats), but they dismiss this and say that the company is not just for these people instead of looking at what they can improve for better employee retention. Thirdly, some of these coworkers berate you without consideration of your lack of experience with the whole process and tasks, then later go on with being “friendly” as if they had done nothing wrong. And by the way, most of them are very conyo and fake. It’s like working with a bunch of privileged High School Kids from conyo Universities. Client directors would try to motivate you by giving shoutouts in the hangouts group chat whenever your events are done. But throughout the process of the project, these CD’s are not very kind and approachable. Fourth, their Team Leaders are predominantly very young, they don’t know how to handle their newbies. Very inexperienced and emotionally detached. Every resignation is taken personally and there’s absolutely no way you can leave without them saying something bad about you. They even talk badly about people who have already parted with the company. With that said, there’s also no proper onboarding and offboarding process for employees. And it’s not a surprise that they have a high employee turnover rate. The employees work long hours, have terrible work shifts, give their all, but end up being undervalued. They aren't even compensated fairly. Nearly everyone I worked with was burnt out every other week. And the job tasks do not add much value to the career. Join Ortus if you want to learn how to do phone calls or write emails. If you want to do more than that, look elsewhere. Lastly, they ask their content team to create fake positive reviews here on Glassdoor. So don’t believe what these bots are saying in this review section. You’re Welcome! Now Run.

5.0
18 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very fast at making changes or fixing mistakes, HR is always free to talk with people and hosts company events frequently. Always pays on time, large bonuses... you can easily double your base salary. No consequences for being late, pretty understanding of people's lives. Clear KPIs and expectations given which my previous company didnt give me so no one ever knew what they were meant to focus on.

Cons

ops team leads are not very respected by anyone, they don't have the courage to speak to other mangers so GDs are better off speaking to them directly. they even get commissions for the GD work when they havent done anything for it.

4.0
26 Oct 2022

Great experience and day-to-day, most issues are with management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Compared to other Philippine companies, the compensation is very good. HMO also has high coverage. The people are great and fun to work with, and it's a real pleasure being around them. Most managers are good at defending/protecting you against upper management. In my experience, the company wants to see you succeed and will give you the tools you need to do so. I genuinely really enjoy working at Ortus, and can see myself working here for a few years. To be honest, a lot of these negative reviews are written by fresh grads who don't know how the real world works. Forced to go to the office and the company doesn't care how you get there? Yeah, like every job, ever. Come on.

Cons

I wouldn't call the work very challenging. I also wouldn't say there's much room for fulfilment career-wise. There's also not a lot of opportunities to expand skillsets, so in that sense there is no real growth unless you get promoted to management. A lot of growing pains from growing out of a startup. They care too much about man-hours (process based, not output based) and making sure you fill up every hour of your day with tasks, which is simply not sustainable.

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