Where to even start...
- Lied to during the interview about size of the team and scale of the work we would be involved with.
- Very junior staff in 'Management' positions with no clue on what they were doing - essentially they'd been given a promotion to entice them to stay.
- 'CEO' made extremely inappropriate comments to employees - also no process where you could raise complaints about this.
- Staff turnover was very high, no one I worked with while there is still there now.
- No training or support given so everyone was pretty much winging it. The only time I heard about training being offered was when my colleague threatened to leave. Outsourced most of what we did to freelancers.
- Clients really didn't have a clue just how inexperienced the team was.
- At my time of employment they took on Sandwich Year students from local universities, paid them pennies but expected them to take on the same workload as full time employees. Clients were also unaware that uni students were often the only people working on their project (not sure if they still take in uni students but 'CEO' and 'COO' are the same so wouldn't surprise me if they are still following this approach).
- The mood of the office was completely dictated by the mood of the 'CEO'.
- I was unable to have annual leave requests approved without being asked in front of the whole office what I was using my time for.
- 'COO' lived in a different country, would come over once a month and, again, would change the mood of the whole office. Also heard of occasions where she spoke really unprofessionally to people (more her manner than what she was saying) although she had the decency to do it away from the main office.
Unfortunately for me, I was an ambitious graduate sold an exciting role promising support and plenty of great opportunities but actually I was left completely disappointed. I couldn't get out of there quick enough.
