Worst workplace I have ever worked in my career - Anonymous employee MBLM Employee Review

1. Lack of diversity. It’s mainly white-male dominant, especially at the manager level. 2. Low salary. MBLM pays you 20–30% lower than the average salary rate. 3. High turnover. Most people leave the company within six months due to the toxic environment. The median tenure on LinkedIn says 8.1 years because they never change partners or managers who have been in the office since they opened the office. 4. Toxic environment. Manipulative managers, racism, sexism, and micromanaging. The partners, managers, or directors never value employees’ work and occasionally criticize them based on their moods. 5. Never paid for overtime. Even though MBLM know it’s illegal, they will make an excuse not to pay you. 6. Too much workload for a small team (under 15-ish people in the office) leads to working overtime frequently. 7. Ridiculous work hours. Occasionally, the day starts around 9 AM but ends around 7 or 8 PM. And it doesn’t include a one-hour lunch break in the eight work hours. (9 to 6 is the work hour, which is 9 hours, but they never pay you for that.) They also ask you to work during the lunch break as well. 8. Poor quality of work. The partner has a specific taste in style, or the directors have particular phrases they like to use over every client, so the works look similar. 9. Poor managing skills. The company has so many useless policies (too many resources meeting) or doesn’t know how to manage time and projects, which leads employees to work inefficiently. 10. Non-hybrid workplace. MBLM asked the employees to be in the office five days per week. I cannot understand why they tell candidates during the interview process that they are hybrid-friendly. They don’t let people work remotely, while partners or managers do that from time to time. 11. Hiring interns only to cut off the budget while not paying them enough. And, of course, they won’t hire them as full-time. 12. Most of the recent reviews were written by managers or partners. Don’t be fooled by them. 13. No work-life balance. The company does not care about your personal life and gets pissed off if you tell them you need to leave the company after work hours or over the weekends. 14. There’s nothing like free lunch (which happens once in two or three months) or benefits for your work anniversary or birthday (basically $50 gift cards for both). Don’t be fooled by work benefits on LinkedIn job posts.