Propaganda Professionals - Anonymous employee Kriya Employee Review

1.0
Apr 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some brilliant and creative employees driving the business forward. Great coffee house across the road. Good bars after work. Close to the West End and underground stops.

Cons

This is a small, IB-minded company that leeches off its immensely talented team, milking them for all they can and treating most of them like dirt in the meantime. Recent "strides" towards transparency and better culture are merely a façade. New reviews are timed (and scripted) to move bad ones out of sight and previous genuine reviews have been removed for legal reasons. This highlights the determination of the business owners to manipulate those in or around it. Dare not speak out or try to advise the inexperienced management or you'll be cast aside as a renegade, belittled and bullied by the CEO. Team heads tend to leave the business after a short spell, yet when asked why, the directors simply brush it under the carpet by downplaying the jobs they did and insisting they were "toxic to the business" and "bad hires." The inexperience calling the shots is detrimental to the future success of the business and the delusions of grandeur and arrogance that permeates through top-level management hammers home this fact. It's this attitude that creates a backstabbing, almost unbearable culture within a small, once tight-knit and successful team. This has only been accentuated since long serving, top performing and key characters have left. Does this company have a revolving door policy? Absolutely. If you are unlucky enough to choose MarketInvoice over the real fast growing game-changers in this sector you can expect to learn a little, but you should plan your next move shortly after arriving (if you get through the rigorous and frankly ridiculous hiring process) if you care about your career, because few there will help you or care.

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Kriya Response
10y
We were sorry to read this review as clearly your experience with us was not a positive one and as we try to be fair with all our employees, both former and current, we feel it is only right we should respond to your review. We would certainly agree that we have an immensely talented team. Our people are paramount to us, they are what make MarketInvoice a truly unique place to work and it would be remiss of us not to mention this. We do encourage our employees to have an opinion, we do expect them to bring their experience and skills to the fore and we hope that this encourages people to feel included and that they are able to make a difference. Reviews and indeed responses are not scripted. As I am sure you will be aware, we cannot remove responses from the site, only Glassdoor has the right to do this and we actively encourage not just current employees, but people who interview with us and those who leave the company to rate us on this site as we want people to have a full understanding of what it’s like to work at MarketInvoice. The senior leaders at MarketInvoice have worked hard to increase our transparency, ensure effective communication across the business and offices and to welcome all opinions from people. We ran our first employee engagement survey earlier this year, we have a culture committee in place (this is deliberately run by people from across the business at all levels and with a revolving chair person to ensure fairness and transparency) and we ensure we have all company meetings every Friday along with town halls, strategy meetings, lunch and learns and leadership meetings (which are open forum and can be listened to by anyone in the business) all in a concerted effort to make sure we keep our people informed and at the heart of the business and its decisions. We are a small company now going through an exciting growth phase and whilst last year we did have to restructure some of our teams, we are firmly on a path of growth and expansion. We move into new, larger offices soon to support this and retention of our current team is key to us reaching our goals and being successful, we in no way have had or intend to have a revolving door view to our employees. We are grateful that you have given us feedback and we are sorry that on this occasion it hasn’t been a positive experience for you, but rest assured all feedback is taken seriously and of course, it goes without saying that we do wish you well in your next role.

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Kriya Response
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Thank you for your review and feedback. We are passionate about creating an open and employee-centric culture. We use CultureAmp for our employee surveys and use the points and data collated to create goals and action points for leadership and other business functions. Our Townhall is a transparent and open space for employees to understand more about the direction of the business and to be kept in the loop with leadership choices and thoughts. As a scale-up business, our challenge is building fast and at times appreciate this would mean re-doing work, we would would welcome suggestions by anyone in improving this aspect.
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