Madison Reed reviews about "people"

The typical struggles of a small company can be a challenge

- The VPs, C-levels hire their friends. It has nothing to do with skill and capability. It's all about the connections you had and not about your resume. - They spend so much on fruitless endeavors and then put the pressure on the employees to make up for lost money and time. - Turnover is high. No one at this company, especially in the marketing department seem to last longer than 1 year. They either get forced out, laid off, or they leave because the culture is toxic. I had 3 supervisors in the period of 9 months. - Underpaid and undervalued. They hire people in at way too low of salary and blame their recruiting software for the ranges they come up with. It's disappointing that a company that expects so much from their employees would undervalue people this much.

The pay sucks. Think… hair factory. Every 30 minutes a new client. Over and over and over again. A lot of people don’t understand it’s “express” and get upset they move along like a “factory line” Sometimes the clients are verbally abusive to the staff, they know if they complain they will get the service for free and a free service the next time for no reason at all other than desperation to retain clients. The amount of free the company gives away, they will be broke in no time.

irregular schedule, no work life balance, some drama and gossip, overwork you with clients

The CEO and C team talk a lot about the values but do not live them. The company is full of backstabing, gossip, and nepotism. To get ahead, you have to be a bully. Many leadership roles are filled with friends of the CEO which would be fine if the people knew what they are doing, but they don't. There is little to no strategy. Constant chaos. Constant fear of leadership. You cannot speak up without retribution.

You have to work long shifts every day.

The F word.... family. You know that when a company uses that word they're manipulating you into working really hard... yet what family that you'd WANT to be part of can dump you? Treat you as expendable? You can get incredible performance reviews and be shown the door a week later. There's a lot of backstabbing and bullying, gossip, and nepotism. Some upper level management are untouchable because they're family friends, yet chaotic and under qualified. Everyone at the VP and above level is engaged in vicious competition with each other, and there's constant fear of leadership, and despite saying they value transparency, you cannot speak up without harsh retribution. "Responsible time off" policy actually means 3 weeks and people constantly watch each other's use of time off, leading to fear and people not taking time off.

I have no cons to report. Only LOVE!