Went from a dream place to work to an absolute nightmare - Trust and Safety Specialist Whatnot Employee Review

1.0
Jun 20, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, coworkers and immediate managers are extremely wonderful and I would’ve left a long time ago without them

Cons

Literally everything else. If you’re working in any position under the ‘Operations’ umbrella, you are treated as less than human. Absolutely no one I work with in Trust and Safety or Support makes anywhere near enough money to survive. On top of that, we are REQUIRED to work weekends and holidays with only 5 days of PTO per quarter. They gaslight us in meetings telling us they pay top of market for our positions, but anyone with access to Google can tell you we don’t make anywhere near what other Trust and Safety agents do. Many of us need to take on part time jobs to be able to survive, and then are told by upper management that that’s a conflict of interest and will take focus away from Whatnot if we have another job. We have tried so many times to politely address to upper management that we are burnt out, struggling, and mistreated only to be laughed at and told we should be thankful to have a job that gives us so many wonderful benefits. We don’t even get access to any of those said benefits anymore. Our last performance review cycle, I witnessed so many top performers only get a 1% raise for the backbreaking work they do day in and day out for this company. We are killing ourselves with not only nothing to show for it, but they don’t mind adding more to our plates and daily workloads. You are going to lose every single high performer and all of your top talent by treating them like garbage. Listen to your employees. Please. We want to work here and we want to do our jobs well, we just want to be treated fairly. We shouldn’t have to beg you guys for that. Shame on you.

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5.0
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Pros

Whatnot is a company with a very promising future.

Cons

There are few opportunities for employee development.

2.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Good healthcare and good benefits.

Cons

Increasingly corporate culture Benefits slowly being rolled back every year Must use PTO for any holidays you want off as Ops agent/specialist Utter lack of leadership. Revolving door of managers because they refuse to promote internally for years Repetitive, dull work Toxic work culture. Very petty people in management who don’t accept anything but yes men Virtually no training established and hardly any SOPs written. What little there are of both are very poorly executed (aka people brand new to the work doing the training) No upward mobility whatsoever Arbitrary pay scales and performance reviews not necessarily aligned with performance or tenure. Disclaimer: experience entirely dependent on what team you’re on. Avoid T&R like the plague.

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