A nice facade for a saucage factory - Web Developer Monks Employee Review

2.0
Jun 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

If you can ignore the bad thing you can work with and meet some amazing talented people. Might be a better fit for younger people who wanna learn and ramp up their experience level in a short amount of time. To them I would suggest: Get experienced, connect with the good people and get out.

Cons

Pretty much a toxic old-boys club within a larger operation. Favoritism might impact how much you will enjoy your stay, which usually involves long and hectic working days to compensate for the overbaring workload. Projects feel constantly on fire. Overtime was often the norm. There are nice and talented people. But the situation within the company is not allowing them to do their best work. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are used for marketing more than the core values being present in the company. The salary is on the low-end making a lot of good people leave. Covid hit the company hard, because working from home removed the peer pressure and possibility to use distractions and alcohol as shiny trinkets to have people complying with far from optimal conditions. Big projecs and shiny clients are being used to hype the company and give the impression a lot of nice projects will come your way. Leadership is chosen on favoritism, nepotism. Colleagues are cynical. Weekly email from Sir Martin are laughed at because how out of touch they are. And company update meetings receive a lot of confronting questions, while the real sentiment was even worse between colleagues their conversations. Salary and increases are always a topic where people are annoyed about, but for most even decent salaries would probably not fix the issue.

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5.0
Jun 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It's been such a pleasure, joy and fresh air to work here. I'm respected, as is my work life balance.

Cons

Leadership hasn't always been consistent with their words and actions, making it feel scary and tumultuous at times.

1.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote Work life balance Benefits

Cons

I was brought on under the premise of working on 1 large account, and was thrown onto 3 clients within weeks of being there, two of which were new business. No training on basic tools but hours of security and harassment training Was made to believe during the hiring process that I would be working for a global agency, where people had and wanted tenure. The reality was working through an integration of a handful of small shops, and their small-budget clients. Everyone using different tools and adhering to various (no) processes. The expectation is that you are going above and beyond to grow your clients scope/investment, the reality is that you are lucky if you have any idea how to pitch a new AI tool or service. Departments are totally disconnected and have little understanding of ways of working given the integration and insane rate of employee turnover. I had a handful of managers in my first 5 months on the job. They pushed the merit cycle back 6 months Despite my strong client and team standing, my position was eliminated effective immediately, including benefits, on the last day of the month. Bare minimum severance.

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