The Worst Company I Have Ever Worked For - Anonymous employee BrewDog Employee Review

1.0
Apr 27, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some nice people trying to do a good job. Unfortunately they are completely overshadowed by the utter incompetence of the management and disgusting values of the business.

Cons

The leadership is absolutely awful. I've never seen such a poorly run company. The whole place is complete and utter chaos. Managers seem incapable of making even the most basic of decisions and have no idea how to manage people and engage their teams and make them feel valued. Basic processes are not in place because it's not "cool". Don't even think about career development because it's non existent. They would much rather hire someone external than develop the people that are there already. The People team are a total waste of space, they would much rather paint unicorns than help you if you've got an issue. I also found them to be the most unapproachable team in the whole company and tried to avoid any contact with them. The safety culture in the business is disgusting. There is PPE available yet some people choose not to use it putting themselves and others at risk, management do not seem to want to do anything about fixing this. Overall, the culture is the worst I have ever seen. People are overstretched, overworked and undervalued.

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BrewDog Response
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Hello! We’re disappointed that you were so unimpressed with the leadership your managers displayed. As you’ll know, we offer both internal (BrewDog Bites) and external (ILM) leadership and management training for all current and potential future managers in the business to help them develop their skills. We know we weren’t the best at it in the past, but over the past 2 years the investment into our managers has been enormous, so hopefully some of these issues are no longer the case! We take any concerns about HSE very seriously, hence why our HSE team have developed multiple internal programs to encourage people to self-police on PPE and call out issues if they see them, which have been hugely successful – in fact we just got incredible feedback on our safety programme through a number of external audits. As ever, we totally welcome constructive feedback on life at BrewDog and are happy to say that all the issues that you’ve raised are becoming things of the past…

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