A place where lack of diversity and working in fear is second nature….. - Anonymous employee Beam Employee Review

1.0
Jul 27, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

extraordinary effort the staff go to in order to sustain a sense of morale despite the obstacles placed in their way

Cons

CEO remains in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance. As other reviews have alluded, (i.e. the reviews he hasn’t managed to get taken down), hard work, integrity and transparency are rewarded with erratic and petulant behaviour. The CEO has the unique ability to avoid facing up to the reality of situations and making difficult decisions, leaving the wider disjointed teams to piece together messaging only to be berated for failing to read his mind and for highlighting the truth. This owner-managed company is proud of its diversity, which extends to many shades of Caucasian, having failed to recruit and retain a single person of colour. The company demonstrates diversity by placing women in largely administrative roles where they can be intimated and reduced to tears on a regularly basis. One redeeming quality for this CEO is, following one of his outburst he chooses to ignore feedback and helpfully proceeds to tell the recipient how they should have felt about his behaviour. This ill-informed and ill-equipped CEO blinded to his own failures by a narcissism that borders on the sociopathic, is the only one extremely confident in his own righteousness.

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Beam Response
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Dear ex-employee, Our CEO wanted to reply to your query himself, please find his thoughts below: Despite you only working for us for a few months, your mistakes cost the business over £500,000. Parting ways with an underperforming member of the executive team is clearly something that I did not perform well. For that I am truly sorry, and I should have done better. I will take more guidance if ever this happens again. Regarding the rest of your comments including those on race and diversity, they are pure fabrication, mostly aimed at attacking me personally rather than the business. I could quote stats and numbers, but the reality is that our women are often the highest paid in their roles (it varies as we promote). Also, we do not judge on anything other than ability and have a diverse team. If anyone reading this is concerned please talk to us and give us the chance to show you the real Rovco. Despite what was a very difficult departure for both of us, I do wish you luck in your future endeavors and I'm genuinely sorry that we had a hard time working with each other. I wish you every success, Brian

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