Black Company Exploiting Black Employees - Anonymous employee Blavity Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The environment is relaxed and the employees are sociable.

Cons

Upper management is awful and lacks leadership skills. They resemble children playing CEO-for-the-day. The pay is egregious, they exploit young, black, professionals entering the workforce and are unable/choose not to hire established professionals because they lowball prospective employees. The CEO has made jokes about their employees living check-to-check. The chief execs don't seem to have a true understanding of the black experience and culture, only their narrow viewpoints and personal experiences.

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Blavity Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. To support the gathering of information of our current culture, the People Operations Team is implementing support systems which will allow employees to provide more frequent, detailed, and confidential feedback. The hope for the team is to better identify the potential gaps/areas of opportunity in Leadership Skills and implement a strategic Leadership Development plan.

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