Badswerve - Anonymous employee Adswerve Employee Review

-Horrible Management: Micromanagement is rampant with over-analysis of reported hours and over-minding P's and Q's. Lots of third-hand feedback delivered through your boss because people are too cowardly to say what's on their mind. -Clueless, unaccountable leadership: Company touts that they didn't lay anyone off during the pandemic, then lays off 5% of the company last year, then continues to tout that they didn't lay anyone off! -Backstabbing Culture: No one is willing to deliver DIRECT feedback. Get used to having someone talk to your boss about you! It squashes any attempt at asking for help out of fear that someone will perceive it as weakness, resulting in termination. -High turnover: People disappear under "suspicious circumstances" (often at terrible times for client and project health). Executives are not exempt from this either. The company lost their COO and chief salesperson recently, then worked to spin their departure as a coincidence instead of a reflection of the company. Womp womp. -Inconsistent and contradictory goal requirements: There is no incentive to do strategic work that could make the company better when all of the company's goals and OKRs are about sales and billable time. Templates for docs like SOWs and legal-approved contracts desperately need overhauling, but no one has time or bandwidth to work on those tasks over client work. -Awful clients: Adswerve lives off its relationships with companies like Google and Adobe, so they often get the dregs that can't or won't pay for a real consulting firm. -Sneaky HR Practices: I've never heard of a company treating cost-of-living increases as "merit" increases. This is insulting, especially during a time of record inflation.