Wouldn't recommend - Anonymous employee NextGuest Employee Review

2.0
Apr 21, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Interesting industry and ability to work for a wide range of clients. - International company, where diversity is welcomed and valued.

Cons

- Outdated agency style: inflexible start and end times, no laptops provided to employess, lack of devices for testing. - Below standards benefits: low pay for the digital marketplace, no health insurance provided during probation period, no sick days, no flexibility to work from home unless you are sick. - Poor client servicing: the majority of staff is junior level and won't receive the right level of training. It's common for client's projects to suffer severely, as management commits to unrealistic contracts and timelines. - No loyalty towards employees: constantly witnessing lay-offs and people quitting around you, means you feel undervalued and morale is generally low. - Lack of innovation: services provided tend to be cookie cutter and you lack ability to work on creative/cutting edge projects. - Unfair promotion structure: there's no clarity as to people's career progression plans. Promotions are achieved when people threaten to leave, rather than due to merit.

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NextGuest Response
8y
First, we want to apologize for the experience you had with us. As a growing company, we are working towards continuing to roll out new policies on a weekly basis that will not only improve the happiness of all of our employees but take into consideration feedback from middle management so that there is a bigger voice than just the e-team. In addition, as we are a growing company, with that comes growing pains, however, we are taking steps to create more structure and accountability across teams. One of our benefits includes generous PTO policy which covers personal days, sick days and vacation days. Again, we apologize for the experience you had. We are all entitled to our opinions and we respect the fact that you quickly moved on before getting too settled here. All feedback is good feedback, and we will be sure to review the points you made. We are truly committed to all of our employees and work hard to improve everyone’s work-life.

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- Great experience if you're looking to learn about digital marketing and take on a heavy load of complex projects.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 17, 2019
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Pros

If this is your first job after college, NEXTGUEST (previously HEBS Digital) is a fantastic company for learning not just digital marketing and hospitality, but also agency processes and best practices. There are some truly talented people across all departments, and if you land in the right circles, you will also have a friendly, tight-knit time in the workplace. You can clearly tell that there are some people in the company who truly care and want to transform it into the top, trendiest digital marketing company for hotels in the world.

Cons

However, despite calling itself a ‘Tech Company’, NEXTGUEST is run via rather archaic internal procedures, tools (ie. QuickBase) and corporate culture. There is no clear vision, mission, or values - even less with the level of changes happening. It seeks the business of the newest, trendiest ‘big dogs’ of hospitality, but simultaneously takes random non-promising clients. It seeks maximum productivity and accountability from its entry-level/associate employees, but consciously saturates their bandwidth paired with empty promises of ‘it will get better’. Unless you started in the company before the change in leadership, you will likely be under-payed for your position, for the city, and for the actual work. For example, you will witness multiple cases of entry-level/associates employees doing the exact same, if not more work than their managers and even supervisors. Yet, this is masked under miscommunications and counter-productive internal procedures.

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NextGuest Response
6y
Thank you for your review, which we highly value. We appreciate hearing about your personal experience and are glad to learn that you like the learning experience and working together with our talented colleagues. We always strive to improve our internal procedures and tools and our technology team works very hard to provide our clients with cutting-edge technology making us stand out in hotelier ad-tech. Please find our mission statement and values on our website. Our rebranding helped us to better communicate what we stand for. Thank you again for your detailed feedback.
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