Good product, awful culture - Anonymous employee JustFoodForDogs Employee Review

2.0
27 Jul 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Research behind product is solid, good to work for if you have interest in animals

Cons

Work culture is cultish with the education/training department literally saying "drink the koolaid" and encouraging new hires to essentially be fanatics for the product in order to sell it. You are pressured to participate in asinine work-based social media apps on the regular and the company falsely claims to be all about transparency while obfuscating important information from clients and employees alike. They fired all of their retail-based salespeople with 2 weeks notice over a zoom call after dodging questions about job security in 2020-2021 and using them to build their foundational client base within pet stores, making their claims of valuing transparency and treating their employees like "family" laughably and demonstrably false. Consistently refused to promote from within, instead bringing in people with random unrelated managerial experience and no knowledge of pet nutrition to struggle to keep up with the demands of the job and using lower paid but better trained employees to cover those holes in experience with no compensation or reward. Customer service is a joke, with none of them being actually trained or knowledgable on the product and often giving extremely unprofessional and inconsistent responses.

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JustFoodForDogs Response
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Thank you we greatly appreciate your valuable feedback about the company back in 2020-21 year. As of 2022 we are still continuously growing and changing. We are working on implementing changes across the board such as training in all departments and management training. We would like to acknowledge that your concerns have been heard and will be greatly considered when implementing these changes in our company in coming months and years to come. We are sorry that you had a negative experience with the company and would like to give you the chance to reach out to us here at JustFoodForDogs people operations team by reaching us at peopleoperations@justfoodfordogs.com.

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