Poor management, and bonus system - Anonymous employee Runa Employee Review

2.0
Feb 15, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

the people are lovely, it was easy communicating across teams and departments. So many wonderful people within the company.

Cons

-there are some who were given management positions who had no business being managers. eg: Doesn't know the difference between feedback and coaching, not open minded to the team's ideas, gave anecdotal feedback based on opinions, if challenged on something would tell you you're just taking in personally. -Sales bonus structure vague. Commission and bonuses were terms used interchangeably. They have it in the employee contract that they reserve the right to change it whenever they want, and without notice. Multiple times commission amounts were wrong and there was always a reason to cut your commission/bonus amount, while management told us one thing, then turn out to be another. -Notion and slack are relied on a bit too heavily. Notion was not always kept up to date, so finding information was not always an easy rabbit hole to venture. Slack was used to heavily, even to find information through hubspot etc.

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Runa Response
3y
Hi, Thank you for the feedback and for recognising the positives around the communications and the people we have working at WeGift. We agree that our employees are our strongest asset. L&D is a core 2023 focus of ours. We are introducing a learning management system and are in discussions with a people management specialist to kick-off people management training for all managers in the business. So it's good to see that we're tackling an area that you have identified as a weakness. As a scaling business we offer lots of progression and opportunities for people to step up into people management roles, often for the first time in their careers. And there is a learning curve for many of our newer managers. We currently bridge this by seeking feedback regularly and relaying this back to managers in the business. We ask directly around management skills and progression points in our engagement surveys and we ask for direct feedback from peers and reports in our performance review process. This feedback can then be utilised for up-skilling management. We hope that any concerns you had around management style have been picked up through these tools and we therefore have an opportunity to help with this manager's ongoing development. Please let us know directly if any commission or bonus is incorrect. This is never done intentionally and we will always fix any discrepancies if they are identified. This is a rare occurrence, but there are a few variables here which can impact this - either through reporting from our Sales team, calculations from our Finance team and/or comms between our People and Payroll platform. So any issues here should be reported to us so we can properly investigate and make it right if needed. Thanks, David

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Pros

Great bosses and lots of freedom.

Cons

Not a lot of direction.

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Runa Response
2y
Hello, Thanks for your review. We’re passionate about having trust in our employees and giving them the ownership and autonomy to do their best work and continue to invest in our leadership and managers. As a high growth scale up we do often need to pivot, which means adapting to changing situations which can affect the direction at times. We are building our 2024 company objectives in line with the company strategy and will be working with each of the teams on how they can contribute, which in turn will provide a clear direction. In our Q3 engagement survey, 89% of people agreed that they know how their work contributes to the goals of Runa, but I would love to organise some time with you to find out how we can improve in your experience. We are always striving to get better and take the feedback on board. Please reach out on oliver.lochhead@runa.io Many thanks, Oli Senior Talent Manager
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