Cool Work, Horrible Company - werkgeversreview Senior Associate - Insights bij Material

1,0
10 okt 2023
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You'll get trained as a junior level employee and get to work with some of the coolest clients. The mid and junior-level employees are awesome people who are willing to help each other

Minpunten

Unfortunately, the leadership at this company has completely destroyed any trust, morale and work-life balance that used to exist here. Junior-level employees are expected to work significant amounts of overtime hours to complete boring tasks through inefficient systems. The company is openly staffing people to a 45-hour work week, meaning you usually work 45-50 hours a week. Those working 45 hours or less are told they're underperforming and need to work more to help balance the workload. Promotions and pay raises have been frozen all year and the company has experienced multiple rounds of layoffs. Amid promotion freezes, the company hired offshore teams to outsource resources to, instead of investing in their own existing employees and systems. The company bids extremely complex and over-priced projects to needy clients who demand their results on fast timelines. This places a lot of pressure on junior employees to execute the work quickly, even though these complex projects need more time. This results in overworked people who are burnt out. Pay is competitively low and the company is hesitant to promote, even when not in a promotion freeze.

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5,0
14 mei 2026
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Remote work. Great people. Great clients.

Minpunten

Overall it's been a great experience

1,0
1 apr 2026
Anonieme werknemer
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Some of your coworkers are nice. That’s genuinely the best I can offer.

Minpunten

Where to begin. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS PLACE! Leadership here has perfected the art of making employees feel simultaneously over-monitored and completely unsupported. You will be asked to document your every move, log every task, and submit to being told in advance exactly how long each one should take. Not as a guideline. As a verdict. Disagree with the timeline? Too bad. Need more time because the work is actually complex? That’s a you problem. There is no autonomy here. None. You are treated less like a professional and more like a variable to be optimized. The implicit message, delivered daily, is that you cannot be trusted to manage your own time or make your own decisions despite being hired, presumably, for your judgment. The gossip culture is out of control and flows from the top down. Information that should stay private doesn’t, alliances shift constantly, and you’ll quickly learn that what someone says to your face and what they say behind your back are two very different things. Feedback is weaponized, not developmental. Expectations shift constantly and without notice, which conveniently means you’re always one step behind. Accountability is a one-way street: mistakes made above you disappear quietly; mistakes made below are treated as character flaws.

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