RUN AS FAR AWAY FROM BEAUTIFUL DIGITAL AS YOU CAN - Anonymous employee Beautiful Digital Employee Review

Kind coworkers, entry into the industry (put a pin in this one)

Oh my God, where even to start here. Absolutely horrible. All of my nightmares during my time at Beautiful Digital were work-related. My entire nervous system heaved a sigh of relief once I was finally able to delete mountains of WhatsApp chats and accounts from my device. I was stuck with such a massive caseload on my own personal device that I literally couldn't be free of the poltergeists that were these client accounts until I bought an entirely new phone since I basically had to brute-force break these apps just to manage them all. Sometimes my apps still glitch out and apparitions of past clients who have already parted ways with this company will briefly reappear on my login screens like a flare-up of illness. Another review describes J&T as people more than happy to exploit their staff for being young and hungry, and this definitely summarizes their ideal hire: naive enough to their dishonest business practices to be taken advantage of at literally every turn possible. It’s a sweatshop with the great "benefit" of remote work, so you can cry from exhaustion in the comfort of your own home. Yay! You will not be protected from crass and abrasive clients that want you to post for them at 10pm on a Friday. You will not be able to protect your own clients with whom you establish positive working relationships with from the inevitable havoc J&T will wreak upon them by not being able to meet the most reasonable needs--because they're too busy disagreeing on which clients you should even be prioritizing (hint: the ones that pay them more). Your coworkers will be the only bright spot in this smog cloud of a workplace, which is why the best thing you can hope for them is that they'll one day leave. Advice for prospective clients: I cannot imagine J&T's absolutely shameless levels of schmoozing are working on everyone, but just in case: Do not fall for their schmoozing. The AM they assign to you is daydreaming during your weekly call of getting out of this industry entirely. I would never entrust this company with my image and materials because they conduct their business with the same levels of transparency and integrity of a handbag peddler on Canal Street. Advice for prospective workers: RUN. DO NOT MAKE MY MISTAKE AND IGNORE THE GLASSDOOR REVIEWS. Find entry-level work elsewhere.

Great team of staff and great clients - that's it.

I have never left a Glass Door review before, but given how toxic and damaging this company is to its staff, I felt that it was important to warn people about this company - avoid at all costs. The directors of this company do not care about staff at all. You will be overworked, underpaid, gaslit and blamed for anything that the directors can blame you for, and when you reach out for support you’ll be told to just get on with it. You will be expected to work over your contracted hours every day, and also at weekends and on bank holidays if needed and there will be no reimbursement, let alone a thank you. On the odd occasion you do get a thank you, or slight praise you’ll soon realise there’s no real meaning behind it and it's just to keep you 'sweet' for a while. You’ll also need to have your own laptop and phone, and use your phone/WhatsApp for all work communications, which means you’ll find it very hard to have a life outside of this job and yes the directors will expect you to reply to weekend and out of hours messages. Don’t bother trying to go above and beyond, many people have tried over the years and they actually just get knocked back and denied promotions - they do not like people doing anything other than following their strict instructions, even if it goes against what their paying clients are asking for. The two company directors barely get on and have different approaches to everything, so while you’re struggling with your workload and priorities, they’ll be arguing over which of their clients you should be prioritising, making it even more challenging to do your job. The company is always understaffed and everyone is always overworked and burnt out. They have an extremely high turnover and the majority of staff are unhappy and even want to change careers after working here. Half of the staff are apprentices on ridiculously low salaries and within a short period of time, they basically do the same job as junior/mid level account managers, who are on more than double their salary. Even then the pay is very low for the level of work expected. This company is not worth your time or mental health.