Toxic work environment - Anonymous employee C-4 Analytics Employee Review

1.0
Dec 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most people at the company were hard working and were very helpful.

Cons

Where do I begin....upper management are immature they treat everyone like they are children. Management will use passive aggressive tactics to address the entire client services team and individual employees. Clearly they are surrounded by too many recent college grads which is clearly affecting the way they manage. They play favorites if you are not on their list they will make your life extremely difficult. They hire most people straight out of college which makes the working envirmonent very immature even if you have been in the workforce for a few years. C-4 is consistantly having to do 'save the client' presentations which is pretty much creating 250 slide powerpoints that the client doesn't even care for and lying about data to make it look better. The fact that they consistanly lose clients show you the lack of accounibility in the client services department. The way discipline is dolled out at C-4 is extremely unprofessional. They do not confront employees when something is wrong with their work instead they talk behind your back and basically build up a list so they can embarass you in front of other employees. A lot of the Senior Account Managers and Account Managers have way too much on their plate and have no idea how to manage anything. The reasons I have mentioned are a huge reason why C-4 is the most toxic working environment I have ever been a part of. Everyone is stressed out and miserable and they try to cover it up by having 'beer fridays' and other social events. Avoid C-4 if you can you want to be part of a company that is invested in your growth and development. Not a company that treats you based on your attractiveness or your ability to be "cool".

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