Very high turnover place - Anonymous employee Handel Group Employee Review

1.0
2 May 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Mostly friendly staff. Remote work location.

Cons

Founder/CEO is wildly unprofessional and has unsustainable and unreasonable work demands. She needs higher, relevant education about this line of work. The chief marketing officer has a lack of knowledge in the area and has an unstable, jealous attitude, where she routinely belittles others. HR hires, only to fire a short time later; employees are set up to fail, with unrealistic guidelines.

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Handel Group Response
5y
We respect the opinion of this former employee. Please note that our former CMO has moved on from her position and a new individual now occupies that role. Also note that the former employee appears to have confused the role of Founder / CEO into one, these are actually two separate individuals. Handel Group does have a unique company culture of team and individual accountability, and we believe in stretching ourselves to meet ambitious goals. This culture may not be a fit for every person.

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5.0
4 Nov 2024
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Pros

Great to see Lauren Handel back rebuilding her first and original company. Old leadership left a mess and of course, bad reviews. Thankfully she is here to stay and is growing the business how she originally intended.

Cons

Takes time to rebuild a company but she is making it happen.

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1.0
16 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Some people on the team were actually decent to work with.

Cons

he whole place runs on who you know, not what you do, and it gets exhausting watching the same people get every good project while everyone else watches from the sidelines. There's this inner circle that just keeps feeding itself and the rest of us are expected to pick up the slack while they take credit for work they didn't even touch — which honestly gets old. No one even pretends it's fair anymore, people just accept it and move on, which is somehow worse because it means nobody's trying to fix it. The real problem is there's actual talent here that gets wasted because being good at your job doesn't matter, it matters if the right person likes you. You can feel the resentment building and people are jumping ship because they're tired of watching the same people fail up the ladder while doing actual work gets you nowhere. It's just depressing to watch a place where merit is treated like a joke.

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Handel Group Response
2w
Thank you for sharing your perspective. Our current CEO returned in 2022 after stepping aside in 2016, and much of this feedback reflects a period of leadership that is no longer in place. Since 2022, we have focused on strengthening leadership practices and workplace standards, and remain committed to accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement.
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