A Casino-Night-Out Life: You Never Know What the Dice Will Bring This Time - Marketing Specialist Semrush Employee Review

3.0
26 Jul 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- good pay, health insurance package, and compensation (at least, they were when I worked there) - great A- and B-level colleagues, with some good lads in the C-level as well, especially in the dev dept - an amazing place to get an in-depth 360 marketing experience, with sophisticated and thought-through campaigns (unless, launched in a hurry, with vague goals and KPIs) - an ok work/life balance outside of periods of yet another structural reform and/or huge marketing campaigns coming out of the blue

Cons

- instant changes for the sake of changes, which can affect your position in a blink of an eye: today you are valued and cherished, tomorrow you are downgraded or even given a boot - many people on the C-level and above are narrow-minded personas, with cult-like following and a suck-up admiration from both the lower-level employees and C-level executives (thanks to that, they sustain through the years in the company) - the CEO easily falls for weird and unprofessional jabber, which hugely affects the hiring policy resulting in onboarding people with little or irrelevant to the position experience in the industry; this, in turn, triggers recurring structural changes because every 3-6 months the company bumps into bottlenecks in the form of internal conflicts and inefficient workflows; - The HR department is a cool kids club that doesn't give a flying flunk about employees: in my department, there were four HR managers changing one another, and none of them was a real professional—all of them were reluctant to solve difficult situation whenever one would come up, and were ok with making you fill in for a job, for which they were unable to find an employee; HRs also did not care about your mental health—I was personally told to "start taking hormone pills to cheer up and chill out"

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Semrush Response
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Dear Colleague, Thank you for such a detailed review. We appreciate you highlighting both the pros and cons; it’s valuable feedback for us. Overall, it’s saddening to see that you had such negative feelings while working with us–we want to improve and provide a better experience for you! Please contact HR directly to discuss this situation. We are confident that together, we can find a solution. Yours, Semrush Team

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