Web Marketing Experts Reviews

Typical alpha male clueless startup bro management with no idea how to employ people or run a legitimate business. Constant surveillance of workers and emails sent by management suggesting workers are being watched via webcam. Absolutely no support offered for huge amounts of stress and mental exhaustion caused by work. HR policy is created on the fly and utterly disregarded by management. Complete lack of respect for everyone but sales staff, who are in on the very shady work that the company actually does and get a large cut of the profits. Utterly toxic workplace culture that ignored a great deal of sexist, racist and generally offensive behaviour that would get people fired anywhere else. Ridiculous workload demands. Every so often staff are forced to market and promote management's crackpot startup ideas that fail after a few months, which means that workers are working for multiple companies (with multiple workloads) simultaneously with no additional pay. Non-sales workers told that their jobs are worthless and they're replaceable. Revolving door of managerial staff who are paid a great deal of money to repeat slogans out of entry-level How To Run A Business books and then fired when this somehow doesn't solve all the company's problems. Illegitimate SEO practices constantly undertaken by the business and employees constantly take the fall for when they don't work. Company does not care about financial or life situations of customers when it comes to issuing refunds after their work is inevitably found to be terrible. Company constantly rebrands to avoid negative PR, adding yet more stress

Been working at WME for >3 years now (would prefer not to give exact timeframe as I'm still employed). When I started out I was pretty excited and gung ho about the position, but over time I've realized what a mistake it was. I'm currently attempting to get out the door without burning any bridges so that I can move on to an *actual* agency. The environment is utterly, utterly toxic. You are forced to sell products that nobody, and I mean *nobody* (not even Nick Bell) actually believes has any viable impact on a client's business. The tech team in-house is looked down upon and is essentially left to "get things done" while the sales team is forced to push products that are, at best, a rip-off, and at worse, actually harmful to a clients web products. I wanted to like WME, I really did. The idea of helping out clients have more effective sites, and to do it by making *real* suggestions and providing *actual* solutions is cool. I just wish these were things that WME valued. Instead, it's just churn, churn, churn - with no real care towards any particular client. As Nick Bell would say (and has said, on more than one occasion) - "There are plenty of clients out there - we can't worry about just this one."