SocialCode Reviews

It's kind of hard to articulate because I have really never felt depression or anxiety like this before coming to SC. Above all, I definitely feel like I sacrificed more than I gained here. I had inconsistency during 100% of my time here, especially when first starting out; and despite dealing with turnover at a level higher than me on one team, I genuinely tried my best. Tasked with not only my job, but the burden of bearing the work of my teammates who had routinely quit, it was impossible not to feel like I had drowned and was hallucinating in some kind of unimaginable hell. During desperate times, I asked leadership for help that was never delivered, which caused mistakes that were likely to be made under this pressure. I was only taken seriously and had repercussions when the account was able to be staffed to a capacity where my departure would not have impacted the client. SocialCode has developed this weird predatory way of recruiting fresh college grads with the promise to give them experience; and despite suffering trauma upon working here, we still convince ourselves this experience is industry standard, or worth it. The company thrives on this millennial desperation, which really does alter your sense of reality and self-worth. When there are people close to you (your coworkers who you’ve bonded with from suffering and shared trauma), it's easy to think this is normal. IT’S REALLY NOT, and it's so sad that employees who set the bar low are praised for meeting it--if you make the mistake of setting it high, they will continue to add to your plate and critique you for a slip up. It’s important to remember that titles at SC mean little to the overall org, and anyone who is able to withstand this living hell that you didn’t think existed despite NYT articles claiming so, is sure to be promoted as things seriously thin out at the level of anyone who has been at the company for 1-2.5 years. Leadership, from managers to the CEO, praise teams in company-wide meetings for a job well done, which I've always found to be an interesting move because anyone in the office working with these people would know that they would surely have traded a “shoutout” from their company's CEO with an hour back of their weekends, or even an hour of stress-free sleep, which you are sure not to find here. Despite all-nighters in college, this has truly been the worst most stressful, corrosive, depressing time of my life because it’s like an all-nighter, but it never ends. TLDR summarized by a direct quote from Beyonce herself: I definitely pushed myself further than I knew I could. And I learned a very valuable lesson––I will never, never push myself that far again.

This company is terrible. Management is terrible. Aside from maybe one or two people, the higher-ups at this company are completely ill-equipped for their roles. I'm honestly unsure what the managers at this company are setting out to do because I'm pretty sure their sole purpose should be to help manage teams & alleviate the stresses and workloads of those under them, and yet that could not be further from reality. Which leads me to believe that the managers at SC either have shockingly little understanding of what their subordinates are actually doing on the day-to-day, or are genuinely bad people who don't care at all that the people who they are tasked to "manage" and support are actually suffering to the point of it taking an incredibly negative toll on their mental health and overall well being. I mean, if you're running a company in which the most junior employees are the last ones to sign off every day (ie. 10 pm or later), then you [the manager] are not really doing your job well, if at all. Also- company significantly lacks culture (>90% white but C-suite loves to talk about diversity for years on end without making *any* actual moves toward diversifying), and operates like that of a fraternity/sorority house. TLDR, if you accept a job at Socialcode, expect the following: - Your manager(s) will not support you, even if/when you reach out and ask for help (which no one does enough because we're all experiencing Stockholm Syndrome from this place). - You will be blamed for the subsequent mistakes you make during the periods in which you were drowning and complaining about being overworked (which tbh will be the majority of your time!). - You will literally have bi-weekly nightmares about work, at least. - You will see your friends/socialize one eighth the frequency you did before this job. - You will be consumed by this job from the day you step in until the day you leave (or tbh it's taken a lot of us even longer to fully shake our stresses from SC) - You will be dealing with the hours and stress and overall lack of happiness that many investment bankers deal with, while being paid a quarter of their salary. So honestly just get into banking. My last last thing-- Senior Account Manager positions are the absolute worst because you essentially do all of the same things as AMs but have the weight of more responsibility, and you don't get paid overtime. If (god forbid) you're going in as an SAM, seriously do not accept an offer under $100k.