- Starting salary currently around 2.500 for 40 hours. Some people accept 2.200. Some managed to get more, up to 2.800. “Big” raises only occur once a year when renewing contract. Some people manage to get a raise during the contract year. They are working on salary scales but payment is already seems unfair from the beginning. Internationals often get offered less than Dutch employees. - High employee turnover. Most people leave within a year. Every month there are people coming and going. Within two months more than 6 people left suddenly. Two from burnout, 4+ suddenly not having their contract renewed / told not to come to the office anymore. Also around 4 handed in their resignation. The company now has around 30 colleagues. Last year 20+ people left (including interns). They are constantly hiring. The entire workforce basically changes completely each year. Everyone is involved in recruitment - placing vacancies and sending 200 direct messages on LinkedIn a week to keep up with the turnover. - Illegal / questionable “firing” of employees. They pressured two colleagues who suffered from burnout sign an agreement to terminate employment when they should’ve gotten the option for sick pay (for up to two years - in accordance with Dutch law). They pressured other colleagues to sign agreements to leave within a month because they did not have sufficient reason to fire them but this way they did not have to compensate them. They tried to get other employees to sign this agreement, when they wouldn’t the company just told them they were fired and could not return to the office. However there was not sufficient reason to fire them so with legal help they got compensation till end of contract. They left these colleagues with uncertainty and not answering their questions about what happened to their colleagues and what would happen to them. However, If you want to quit, you have to give two months notice. They may force you to work from home during this time so you do not have much communication with other colleagues. - You may need legal advice when at this company. Check resources such as Juridisch Loket, KVK. You can call Juridisch Loket for free advice or Rechtswinkel Utrecht. Never sign any document without getting advice! - They blame the employee turnover on colleagues “gossiping”/being negative and unprofessional. They disregard the reasons we all mention on Glassdoor or in the exit survey. The teamleaders themselves gossip about colleagues who have left which is really unprofessional and hypocritical. They say that the company is not sinking but thriving and that they have managed to achieve a lot even with a “broken leg”. - Terrible company culture. The company seems nice in the beginning due to the nice clients and lovely colleagues however after a while you realise it is all a facade. The fake gratitude is an example - it is a company goal to give a compliment at least once a week. It is like thanksgiving everyday which makes it less special. You start getting compliments for just doing the bare minimum and get told off if you don’t give enough compliments to balance out the constructive criticism. The company slack is constantly filled with extremely positive messages whilst colleagues are not feeling the positivity anymore - it feels fake and insincere. - By sending 200 messages a week on LinkedIn (from your personal account) many people get blocked. Also they have created a bot to send the messages which will probably result in people being permanently banned from LinkedIn. If you don’t want to participate, they will be very difficult about it. - Company heavily relies on interns. They do the same work as a normal colleague. They get paid €500 per month. - They discourage colleagues from talking to eachother, all communication is done online, even when at the office. Venting to colleagues is not appreciated, you must remain positive at all times. They ensure a manager is always present so they can monitor what you say. Typically you cannot work at the office if your manager / team leader or the co team leader are not there. - You are constantly being monitored by your manager. You have to keep track of everything you do in Google Sheet and with tasks in Asana. It feels like there is a lack of trust. - High workload. Around 30 clients per person where you are contact person and managing their Google Ads account. You also have many other tasks such as helping with recruitment, business acquisition, social / display campaigns, … Some team leaders or colleagues have even had around 80 clients at a time, you can imagine this leads to burn out and just bad quality of work. - Unrealistic goals. You have to manage many different areas from clientcare to finances to recruitment to business development and production. You must try to have all areas perfectly managed. - Fear based workplace. They ask for feedback constantly but react badly to it and use it against you. Better to keep quiet if you don’t want problems or to lose your job. - Illegal activities. They had an intern who left after 6 weeks. They decided not to pay them because they “did not get a return on investment”. They made colleagues use their holiday days during Christmas and New years even though this was not stated in their contract (they have now added it to the contract). They have signed contracts with starting dates but then pushed the date forwards without compensating the new colleague. Etc etc. - The contract is vague and not following Dutch standards. There is not a clear employee handbook document, just Asana tasks which they add and change whenever they want. - Lack of knowledge / no in-house knowledge. All of the staff are recent graduates with no other working experience. There is not much space to share knowledge with colleagues. - Low quality of work. The Google Ads account (yearly contract) is set up once a new client is acquired. After that it is not updated much (as long as it is getting 750 clicks a month). Some of the accounts are really messy and outdated, many mistakes are made, much potential is missed out on. The clicks are often for irrelevant keywords such as “news news” and not what the client actually wants to draw attention to. - Lack of facilities - you wash your dishes in the bathroom. No bike parking. It can be very cold to the point colleagues wear their winter coat, have scarves and a blanket - apparently nothing can be done about this and they have a statement saying you should not complain about this. - Repetitive mindless work. You follow step by step instructions and don’t think very strategically. You do exactly the same thing for each client (they all have the same yearly Google Search Ads contract). There is no diversity, everybody is doing the same thing and basically at the same level. You have marketeers and team leaders and that’s it. - If you have a problem you have to tell your manager, no one else. Then they will tell you to solve the problem yourself. You can only come with solutions, not problems. - They have a HR person now however this seems to only benefit management. The HR wasn’t even involved when suddenly around 8 people left within a two month period. The situation was just ignored and colleagues were told not to talk about it and just focus on the future. - You often have to make purchases yourself, declare it and get reimbursed typically around a month later. For example costs of a business trip or client travel when you don’t have a business OV. This can be around 400€ a month. Not ideal if you don’t have much money on your bank account.