Extremely Toxic & Unprofessional Environment - Anonymous employee Champion Management Employee Review

Great company. I learned a lot.

smaller company, but everyone is super nice, so not really a con.

Great in-office snacks and a fast-paced environment that creates a steep learning curve. You develop practical skills quickly, often out of necessity. There are also genuinely good, hardworking people across teams who support each other despite broader challenges.

All of this company’s problems start at the top. Favoritism, cronyism, backstabbing, and constant gossip shape the culture more than professionalism or competence. Leadership publicly rewards certain individuals (Iris) while shielding them from accountability, protecting them no matter how much damage they cause, which creates resentment, fear, and a total lack of trust across teams. Employees are underpaid, lowballed, and mistreated. People get stuck in a constant cycle of emotional exhaustion, poor communication, and management behavior that feels more punishing than supportive. Instead of building a stable workplace, leadership allows petty internal politics and clique behavior to dominate decision-making. The inexperienced inner circle, consistently prioritized over more qualified employees, is coddled by the principals, who represent both sides of the corrupt political spectrum. One is openly gross and rude to clients, employees, and women throughout the office, while maintaining inconsistent professional boundaries with direct reports; the other shows a clear pattern of biased hiring and favoritism, hiring only entry-level workers who don't know how to stand up to his toxic, petty pandering. This company's issues will never improve thanks to the two principals' arrogance, ego, and mutual hatred of eachother. The VP of client services has no idea how to lead and uses her cronysim role to encourage clique-driven, exclusionary dynamics in the office. The company also loses clients because of leadership arrogance, ego, and internal power struggles. Too much energy is spent protecting favorites, feeding rivalries, and managing perceptions, rather than actually serving clients well or retaining good employees. In several departments, leadership feels unqualified, immature, and more interested in social dynamics than actual management.