ban.do Reviews

1.5

21% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

21% positive business outlook

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9 reviews
1.0
28 Aug 2019

Toxic

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a few really good people who work here.

Cons

The company is truly toxic. It starts with the founder + CCO Jen Gotch. She has created a work environment that is built on passive aggressive manipulation. At this company you are expected to work for low wages and if you leave before 6pm you're seen as not as committed or selfish. You are expected to give up weekends for public events the company throws (which you are not being compensated to work). If you disagree or dissent you are ostracized in some way, which is a huge problem in and of itself but especially because Jen also regularly makes openly racist comments. The toxicity and racism that Jen exhibits (and that her core management team upholds through their mirrored behavior or through their silence) is something that is regularly acknowledged privately among other employees but no one feels empowered to address it in a way that would not risk their own standing. Here, you are pushed to an excessive workload though if you are good or successful at your job it can also be seen as a potential threat - another fact that is privately acknowledged by many. Simply put, the facade of Ban.do that publicly promotes mental health, female empowerment and collaboration is truly the furthest thing from the inner workings of how the company is ran.

1.0
26 Aug 2019

Practice What You Preach!!!

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Pros

A few really great people worked there

Cons

Terrible management, pay is a joke, employees are treated poorly. Everything ban.do preaches to its consumer is nothing more than a highly orchestrated marketing tactic disguised by glitter and rainbows and feeling good. You're expected to devote all of your time to the company while being paid a salary that you can barely live off of in LA. There are multiple full-time people who have to work a second job to make ends meet, but you get the cold shoulder if you don't work late every day, show up to after hours activities or work every weekend event even though you don't get compensated for it. The brand and founder advocate mental health awareness but there is no actual mental health care for employees. People are degraded in the middle of meetings - the design team was seriously booed at in the middle of a presentation to the parent company once. The founder is barely in the office, when she is she's usually too busy filming Instagram videos of herself dancing or whining to her followers, but it doesn't matter because she really doesn't see a problem with how ban.do operates.

2.0
18 Jun 2019

Has a lot to figure out

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing team, beautiful office, fun environment

Cons

Parent company is whack, pay is literally laughable, outward image of mental health focus with no internal efforts to benefit employee's mental health

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