Toxic environment led by unqualified leadership - Anonymous employee Vidico Employee Review

1.0
Aug 8, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The team outside the founders were amazing to work and connect with. Unfortunately even this is lessened as leadership tries to stamp out connection between teams to keep loyalty only to the company.

Cons

There are many but: - Leadership headed by founders who don’t have the experience to be running this company, and don’t take advice from those who they hire that do. This is really the main issue and everything else I mention trickles down from this. - Lack of flexibility in the work environment, which includes time tracking apps that pause if you’re away from your desk for more than 5 minutes and forced + inflexible in-office days that could only be swapped with a medical certificate (3in/2out day split) - Lack of decent pay rises. If you get hired make sure you’re happy with what you start off on as you’re unlikely to go up much more in your time there - Lack of respect or willingness to understand that mental health is something that should be catered for. No, doing a first aid mental health course is not enough so you qualify on paper - Lack of creative ownership. If the founders want to take credit for an impressive client or production, they will force their way into the project and take over. If you try to push back, you’ll be punished. Ultimately this place creates an environment of fear, not support, and wont help you in your career.

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Vidico Response
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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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