Red Ventures reviews

TL;DR - Red Ventures is a den of low-acheiving vipers who will viciously defend their nest of rot and malice. Gossip. Oh lordy, the gossip. It is worse than high school. If you have a spine, they will accuse you of being the problem. There were a couple of really good infrastructure security people that showed up in 2019 who fought for things that platform engineering should have been doing all along. Rather than work together, our director gave us explicit instructions to block their initiatives. This gatekeeping and kingdom defense is a normal part of life at RV. Eventually those engineers left the company and upon their exit the gossip train left the station to slur them and drag their names through the mud in true "Mean Girls" style. You will never finish anything. At RV, the standard operation procedure is to talk about a project for a few months and implement it half-way over the next few months. When questioned why the project is taking longer than expected our leadership will accuse the product, tool, or project of being bad. This begins the next few months of finding a new solution while tearing down the previous incomplete project. This cycle has summed up my entire 3yr+ tenure and I have seen nothing meaningful come to pass. RV will lie to your face. They will tell you whatever they think you want to hear in exchange for what they want from you. Just like they fail to follow through on projects, they will fail to follow through an anything they promise you. Ever since being woke became popular, RV has assigned homework to it's white employees. Example, read white fragility and join the book club of other selfloathing meatsacks to discuss what you learned. Keep in mind, your true assignment here is to virtue signal harder than anyone else lest the gossip train label you a racist. You are not valued. Period. Paragraph.

Culture & Mentality: I'd advise steering clear of Red Ventures if you're looking for a meaningful marketing experience. One of the pillars of the company should be "it's not what you know but who you know", while there is a level of politics in almost every company, at RV it is grossly exacerbated. As an experienced hire, your experience is meaningless to the company. What matters most is how quickly you can get in with a 'throwing the football' mentality with senior leadership and how quickly you can carry a sense of arrogance instead of humility when you are faced with a challenge. Limited growth: Red Ventures often promotes from within, where experience and performance do not matter, but rather how good you get in with senior leadership. This results in poor skills from 2 years out of college students managing employees that have more experience than them. More often than not, this results in poor management direction. The managerial approach at Red Ventures is instilled to 'drive and push' as opposed to mentoring and coaching individuals for growth or identifying key opportunities for growth proactively and strategically push where needed. There's a heavy work imbalance between associates/ senior associates and leadership. More often than not, lower level employees are in the weeds whereas senior leadership becomes severely detached from the day-to-day. This often results in ridiculous internal asks from leadership that are time consuming and result in zero progress (ex. internal meetings and reviews are held to the utmost importance where half days are blocked off) Mental Health - I saw a similar review here regarding an analyst who reported suffering from mental health and work/life balance only to be told by senior leadership that the expectation is to work 60-90 hour weeks. I believe it. Red Ventures does not care about your mental wellbeing. If you voice any concern regarding workload, lack of resources, or challenges it is viewed as a weakness that is often exploited. I've seen talented, driven people fired just because they've asked how to best prioritize internal, never external facing or key business driving, tasks and then were blamed for lack of time management. I've personally experienced first hand bullying from senior leadership and been targeted as a minority at this company. If someone has been at the company for over 5 years they are held on a pedestal of self righteousness and cannot be at fault. While Red Ventures may claim to take allegations of mental illness seriously, I can assure you, they do not. From my previous experience working in marketing, this position has single highhandedly caused the most stress and the most mental sickness I've experienced. The level of toxicity and having to 'prove oneself to the team' and 'bolster more of your achievements to everyone' is not only mundane but makes employees feel like they are never good enough. It's quite genius, actually, if your employees never feel like they are good enough, they will strive harder for your approval and attention. I've had moments where I've went to the bathroom to sob after facing emotional abuse from not even the partners or clients we work on, but from the internal team itself. The TLDR here is, if you are looking for a company that wants to grow you instead of ring you out for all that you have, look for another large company experience in Charlotte where you have actual mentors and managers that train for personal excellence.