Think twice. - Consultant Level Crowd DNA Employee Review

1.0
Dec 7, 2018
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Pros

A handful of highly intelligent and hard-working employees made the job tolerable at times. The office is a nice space - loads of great places to eat and drink in the area. We had a lot of exciting clients to work for. Great place to work if you like attending leaving drinks.

Cons

Senior management are extremely blinkered as to how overworked their employees are. There are very few support systems in place and the turnover of staff is frankly abysmal. Whilst the clients were some of the biggest I've ever worked with, the actual deliverables were most often poor due to the pressure placed on everyone to hit deadlines, and we lost a lot of clients because of this. There is no HR department and as a result it is impossible to challenge anything or request that anything be reviewed. Crowd DNA prides itself on the supposed culture that it fosters, but speak to any recent former employee and they will paint a very different picture.

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Crowd DNA Response
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We’re concerned at the sudden explosion of negative reviews in such a short period of time; also that someone is going to the trouble to send messages to new starters at Crowd DNA, via Instagram DM, recommending they look at Glass Door and that they don’t work for us. We fear this is a somewhat orchestrated attack against a small company that many of us love working for. As for any company of our size HR in-house is very rare. However, we do seek professional HR advice on an ad-hoc basis and grievance procedures are outlined in our staff handbook. Of course people leave, but calling our turnover abyssal is an exaggeration. Team members that have left Crowd DNA have gone on to have successful careers and many are now client side and have become our clients or started working with us as freelancers. We have a good relationship with past colleagues apart from very few isolated cases. I’m grateful and proud of all present and past Crowd DNA team members and what we’ve achieved together over the years. Look up the experience of our senior team at Crowd DNA, I think the diversity of backgrounds and competencies speaks for itself. If you want to work for an employer that gives people opportunities to grow, get in touch! To ad to that we’ve had our best result ever at Crowd this year, including many returning clients and repeat business. That does not mean we can’t get better though, of course we can and will. Matilda Andersson Managing Director Crowd DNA London

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