Pros
It's a shame to see a company with great potential being stagnant under a really, really bad management. I worked here 2 years, it's a good place to work on your speed and sharpen your abilities, but for sure not a place to stay. You get a staff discount, it's a pro for sure even though almost every company out there offers discounts to employees. Usually you're surrounded by good individuals, so you get to learn from others, shame that the turnover is very high.
Cons
First of all, I would like to point out that all the 5 star reviews here are presumably fake. Why? They are exactly the same style of the ones that the CMO wanted to see on the website or on Amazon. On many occasions I have been asked to leave whatever I was doing to publish fake reviews. And yes, that's why there are a bunch of 1-2 star reviews (legitimate) and another bunch of 5 (fake ones), no middle numbers. Also the poor reviews are articulated and published randomly, the 5 star ones are published all on the same day, what a coincidence right? This is my humble opinion, but the management is a disgrace. The CEO is a nice guy, although stubborn and very close to innovation, unless is his own idea. However still today I do not understand why he keeps his CMO in such high consideration. She wants simply to be everywhere in the decision making, she wants to micromanage everything to the point that everything else is delayed. Resulting in you being forced to do extra time, otherwise you are not part of The Protein Work culture and family, bringing your self-confidence down at every chance. I never ever had a chance to see her admitting a mistake, even if there were plenty under the sunlight. I am sorry to reiterate this but I don't see the CMO there as a leader, on my opinion she wants to do everything and she ends up messing a lot of things up and preventing you from doing a your job, and later of course accusing you to have wasted time. Another point that I felt, and here I speak for myself is that you can clearly see that she has preferences on people, especially if you are a native, if you are from abroad you have less chances to enter her circle of favourites. I saw her in many occasion using a softer tone on English personnel and much different tone on foreigners. And this reflects on everything, of course she markets this as cultural differences. Been in many companies now and this is the only issue I had with "cultural differences" whatever that means. I remember I sent an email to get a reference and still today I am waiting for the reply, I guess somebody is still angry that I said out loud what could have been improved when I handed my resignation over. But this is what you get, an environment in which this deaf management is unable to listen to its own employees, making effective communication virtually impossible. An environment in which even a review after you left seems too much to ask. I mean, that says it all on my opinion. It's definitely a nice environment if you enter the grace of the CMO, I have seeing people climbing the ladder quickly, otherwise prepare to be out of there soon, willingly or not because on one hand you'll be frustrated and working like hell, on the other hand the CMO will make your working life impossible and/or miserable. (Example? Ok, I have been hired as a highly skilled worker, ended up in a couple of occasions doing chores around the office). Not mentioning the WhatsApp groups, ringing day and night, no company phones whatsoever, so expect to use your personal phone and silence the group every night, like I did. Best thing that happened to me is that I have been kicked out from the group 2 minutes after I left the office on my last day. Trust is a rare beast, for sure you won’t find it at TPW. My honest advice is avoid this place unless you are desperate for a job, you really like the fitness industry or you want to see how things should not be done. If you accept a job there then good luck keeping your blood pressure low and your self-esteem high.
