Business is failing - Anonymous employee Vidico Employee Review

1.0
Sep 1, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Opportunities to collaborate with skilled professionals - Ability to work remotely 2 days per week, no flexibility on which days. - Employees based internationally or interstate seem to report a more positive overall experience compared to those situated in Melbourne, where the founders are based

Cons

- Substantial employee turnover - Below-average industry compensation. Salaries haven’t improved since they were a start up. Their competitors pay more - Inadequate pay raises, not aligned with inflation (3% raises vs 7% inflation), even in cases of exemplary performance and promotion - High workload, substantial overtime, excessive pressure from founders and upper management - Extensive micro-management via time-tracking applications on all company computers that record sites and apps visited and duration of breaks - Founders have limited experience in video production and business management, make poor decisions and are not receptive to feedback. Instances of vindictive behaviour towards employees who offer advice - Erosion of work quality due to excessive budget constraints and time pressure - Even a single day of sick leave necessitates a doctor’s note, and employees may still be asked to work a half-day I’d recommend that individuals considering a role within this organisation seek feedback from former employees. This is the kind of workplace where people congratulate you when you quit.

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3.0
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Cons

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2.0
Mar 7, 2023
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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
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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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