Pros
Some people here are trying to do their best and have their heads screwed on, despite the uphill struggle of battling disorganised leadership
Cons
- Presenteeism and working outside of your working hours is promoted, especially in the London office. You will receive Slack and emails messages on the weekends, people saying about how they’re working until early hours of the morning. Management will be among them and will make comments that they expect this of everyone. - Can’t trust a word they say: - Mission of making art ‘more accessible’ and ‘putting artists and collectors first’ are ignored frequently in business decisions, such as when they decided to rig a customer draw that was advertised as being random - Claims to be ‘thoughtful as we scale’ but lay off 15% of staff last month, due to scaling too quickly - Claim to value ‘kindness’ but the redundancy was brutal. People let go in an email they received just before they were going to start work, locked out of everything. No prior warning to anyone, very limited transparency. - Majority of leadership unapproachable and rude. Big egos, boys club and outdated corporate mentality adopted by most, if not, all of leadership. - Plenty of office politics, even within teams. - Leadership priorities lie extremely heavily with making money at the detriment to its people - Boring and uninspiring company meetings that drone on about stats and revenue - Inclusivity is a glaring issue - notably to woman (from my experience) - People starting to leave with growing frequency