Horrible employer and awful company - Anonymous employee QueryClick Employee Review

1.0
Apr 3, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Edinburgh office in central location.

Cons

Systemic issues in company culture start at the top. Vain senior management duo place more interested in self-promotion and the use of internal PR to distract from obvious employee dissatisfaction across the business. Individual staff left to their own devices, in a 'lone-wolf' environment where collaboration is an afterthought. Sales & Business Development functions repeatedly over promise to clients and lead a blame culture where delivery teams are blasted for the failures of the management team to implement proper procedures. Duties almost exclusively focus on resolving problems of other people's making, repetitive boring tasks and using broken Excel spreadsheets. Limited opportunity to develop professionally. Widespread organisational reliance on bamboozlment of people with circular conversations, buzzwords, meaningless metaphors and hyperbole inflicted on staff from management, and on clients from staff. A straight answer can be hard to come by. Staff turnover extremely high for a company of its size. Rapid, unsustainable, growth has coincided with departures of some of the business' most experienced and knowledgeable staff. Mediocre benefits package does not make up for below-market salaries and the regular crises & disastrous handling of routine procedures.

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Pros

Fortnightly perk days Remote working

Cons

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2.0
Feb 17, 2026
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Pros

Fortnightly Fridays Off. Remote work. Flexible hours.

Cons

You pay all the above perks with low salaries, unrealistic workload, very demanding results with unrealistic resources. At times, even silly requests. They advertise it as fully remote but in reality they require you to travel all the time to visit clients. In short I felt like it was a very chaotic and somewhat toxic workplace.

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