Brooks Running reviews

The organization pays lip service to Work Happy because it tolerates bullying in multiple levels of the organization. Employees bully colleagues (at the same level) by excluding them from activities and from getting information, as well as by being rude and inappropriate in interactions. Managers either do nothing about the bullies or are bullies themselves. Not every manager is a bully, but the ones who are are widely known as such and yet nothing is done about them. While some departments promote quickly and often, other departments find their employees in the same position with the same title (but increasing responsibilities) for as much as a decade. Career ladder is very inconsistent across departments. Benefits are pretty terrible and the pay is not competitive. Sales and growth targets aren't meeting expectations so bonuses are down from previous years' payout levels.

Growth mode has created some tough times in some teams due to what changes are happening (new systems, changes in processes etc) and we obviously can't work the same way we did as a smaller company and get the same results. Can be risk averse at times and we definitely need to make sure that people who don't align with our culture and values are shown the door.