Exciting place to work! - Anonymous employee Secret Escapes Employee Review

4.0
27 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The office has a great energy, full of bright ambitious people. There is still a fast paced start up culture but it has the security and backing of some big investors like Google. This culture means I get lots of responsibility and autonomy in my role. If you work hard you see the impact and it gets recognised by Senior Management. It's a relaxed environment, I love wearing casual clothes to the office. There's free food and drink in the fridge and wine and beer on a Friday. I also appreciate cake Monday!

Cons

As the business is growing really quickly and recruiting lots of people, we have out grown the office - it's cosy! But we are moving office in January and the plans for the office look cool. There's lots of meeting rooms, a big kitchen, games room and tiki bar work station. There isn't much formal or structured training at the moment, the on the job learning is great, but more training would be good.

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Secret Escapes Response
10y
Thank you for taking the time to post your review, this is really valuable feedback. It's great to hear that overall you appear to be enjoying your role and the culture here - and of course the food (Cake Monday is great!). You've already mentioned the amazing plans for the new office and you’re not alone in feeling that it is ‘cosy’ or that this is much needed to continue to build a work environment where we can all thrive. You’re also right about the training, I can reassure that this is being addressed and over the next few months, there will be much more communication about more formalised training along with some other great new initiatives that will help to build on our culture. Thanks again for this valued feedback, please do feel free to come and have a chat if you would like more detail.

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Thank you for sharing your positive experience with us! We're glad to hear you appreciate aspects that are important to us.
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