Unsustainable place for longterm employment - Anonymous employee Vidico Employee Review

1.0
Apr 6, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A hugely talented and diverse team. Never in my career have I seen a group of coworkers band together to support one another so deeply in both creative and personal pursuits. The HR team has been pushing the company to allow for a healthier work-life balance for their employees.

Cons

Vidico represents the worst of what upper management within the advertising and film industry can look like. From an HR/Management level, employees can expect subpar payment packages, a lack of growth opportunities, management who do not listen to employee concerns or complaints, and an overall toxic workplace mentality. Management at Vidico has a reputation for trying to get the most bang for their buck, and this comes at the obvious expense and disregard to the mental health of their team. As a creative, the company promises to push the boundaries of new work. But most employees will find that their work is repetitive and boring. Up-skilling opportunities will be constantly promised but rarely delivered on. To anyone looking to join this team, I would strongly advise reaching out to existing or past employees and contractors to inform your opinion before signing on.

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Vidico Response
3y
We’re thankful to hear that you think we’re a supportive workplace, as it’s something we care about deeply across our 1:1s, meetings with HR, leave options, hybrid working, project distribution and weekly check-ins on bandwidth. Regarding your criticism: - Renumeration aligns with Payscale and is typically above market average. It’s negotiated with each team member at the offer stage and reviewed annually. - Vidico was one of the fastest growing video production companies in Australia over the past two years. There are many levels of leadership at the company, and as such, growth opportunities in each role. - Recently, most of the company including leadership took a day off and went on a beautiful hike together. Like you say, it’s a beautiful group of co-workers. Our leaders are people too and they spend a large part of their time listening in team meetings. - Vidico only expects full-time team members to work hours as per the NES. As this is a national standard, we do not accept that this has been set in disregard for team member’s mental health. Both founders and managers have been provided mental health training, and have designed the workplace benefits in part from that training. Any overtime can be taken off or is paid. - In the past six months, the talented team members you reference won Youtube Campaign of the Year and 5 Muse Awards. All of us are proud in what they’ve achieved, and believe their work should be respected. - Senior management doesn’t sign off on creative and never has, unless it’s the occasional brief they work on or write themselves. The client will sign off on the creative, and always will. What you put forward is what will push the boundary. - Up-skilling: for years, there’s a weekly team meet in each department to discuss level ups to processes and tools. There’s subscriptions to multiple, quality platforms for learning. There are monthly training sessions to talk critically on video. There is training, and there is a considerable amount of listening at all levels. If you are able to edit your response to include any recommended and specific solutions, we are more than willing to listen to them and take on feedback. We hope that in time, your view on the company will change for the better.

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Creative freedom with briefs Working with a network of creative around the world.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The people and teams are great. Middle management is fantastic. Good projects. Opportunity to push your creativity. Freedom in approach to project direction. Supportive workplace on the whole. HR and processes are improving.

Cons

Culture is in a rough place with many changes occuring- classic teething pains of a growing company. Hopefull this will pass. Salary is average in this economy. Women in same roles getting paid less than male counterparts is disappointing.

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Vidico Response
3y
We’re thankful to hear that you think we’re a supportive workplace, as it’s something we care about deeply across our 1:1s, meetings with HR, leave options, hybrid working, project distribution and weekly check-ins on bandwidth. We also invested in mental health training for our management team. The teacher at that training confirmed that Vidico had set up many of the right systems and processes for mental health in the workplace. If you have any further suggestions beyond what we’ve implemented over the past three years, we would deeply appreciate it if you edited your response to include any recommended solutions about how you would approach company culture and mental health. It would be helpful to you, the team and the company as a whole. Regarding your criticism: - Decisions on salary are objective and impartial - many indicators must be taken into account such as qualifications, work experience, performance, skills, knowledge, initiative, abilities, etc. There is, and always will be differences in salary based on the criteria listed above. - Renumeration aligns with Payscale and is typically above market average. It’s negotiated with each team member at the offer stage and reviewed annually. - Vidico is a highly diverse and multi-cultural workplace where we hire on merit, on skills and values. If you are able to edit your response to include any recommended and specific solutions, we are more than willing to listen to them and take on feedback. We hope that in time, your view on the company will change for the better.
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