A Nice Place to Start Your Career at - werkgeversreview English Content Writer bij clovio

5,0
21 apr 2023
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Not only did clovio give me my first true job but also, at the time of writing (2023), is the only place I worked at for more than three years. Founder-CEO Sander Delabie is a great team leader who always has nice words for every employee. Moreover, his leadership style is more reminiscent of a fellow employee rather than a CEO, meaning that you can have honest and not too serious conversations with him without remorse. Given the size of my former team, it felt more like a club rather than a workplace - in the most positive sense of the word. A huge positive, especially in retrospect, is that my job was fully remote, proving once and for all that certain jobs can be performed from anywhere around the world given the right conditions. Despite being fully remote, operations went smoothly and all strictly necessary hardware/software was provided in advance to guarantee you put your absolute best into your work. Still, there were occasional meetups between team members residing in the same country, so social interactions aren't just limited to your screens. As for the knowledge I gained throughout my 3+ years at clovio, it's something I still use today; what you learn at clovio - whether it's skills or the vast subjects covered - will give you the necessary advantage you need in this competitive market. (E.g. WordPress management, basic HTML coding, basic photo editing, research and analysis skills.)

Minpunten

Since clovio is an ideal place for those who want to kickstart their careers or need a temporary job, my coworkers often changed. As this is a natural process in every company's life, it wasn't a problem per se during my stay at this company; however, leavers were often announced just a few days before their departure - including myself. Also, being a small company, expect salaries that are average at best. (Note: please reach out to "clovions" still working with clovio or having left recently via LinkedIn. As I moved on in 2019, my comments only apply to the pre-2019 state of the company.)

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3y
Hello from all of us at clovio, and thank you for taking the time to submit a review! It’s valuable to hear clovions reflect on the start of their career with us after they set out on new professional adventures! While we continue to expand our company of clovions internationally, we do our best to remain united as a team. We’re happy to hear that clovions can still draw on their learnings from working at clovio and benefit from them throughout the rest of their careers. In fact, it makes us proud knowing that former clovions are taking on compelling new challenges at other great organizations. We also highly recommend aspiring clovions to get in touch with current and former clovions to have a chat with them about their experience working at clovio. Things change quickly at a young company like clovio, where we all encourage each other to grow and learn. What certainly hasn’t changed is our appreciation for diversity. We remain a place where each person can be themselves and put a piece of their own personality in our company culture. Thank you for contributing to our culture and helping make clovio become the company that we are today.

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5,0
30 nov 2024
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

a lot of autonomy and flexibility

Minpunten

You need to love working remotely with limited contact

1,0
16 jan 2023
Anonieme werknemer
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

Only consider taking the job if you are at early stages of your carreer, “flexible hours” BUT you absolutely have to work full 8 hours otherwise the app the company uses to track productivity identifies it as idle time and take screenshot of your screen - literally - every 5 minutes. Not including the CEO, the rest of the team is nice and super friendly.

Minpunten

Crazy micromanagement from the CEO, I have never seen this before and when I tell stories to other colleagues in other companies, they are usually shocked. Management does not take feedback well and only listen to what it wants. Not much interaction with different departments and absolutely no onboarding and training provided. The CEO sends you a huge pdf document written by previous colleagues so you can read and figure it out by yourself. I would say stay here only for the time you need to help make your CV look stronger, but leave as soon as you can. Growth opportunities are also very limited.

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3y
Thank you for sharing your feedback! This new review was submitted after the removal of your earlier review with a 2/5 rating submitted on April 4, 2022. In the time that passed between your two reviews, we have witnessed clovio’s team doubling with existing team members staying on board for seven years or more, and new members being onboarded. The growth of clovio is supported by team members receiving promotions and becoming managers of a team. They are assisted in HR related matters, with guidance from both management and through external training. The friendliness and support of our team members is a result of our inclusive company culture where efforts are being rewarded. As a remote-first company, we feel it’s important that our entire team contributes to the writing of our internal processes. This means that everyone’s on the same page and can guide each other in the best way possible. We indeed offer great flexibility as this is how we achieve optimal creativity for the audiences of our media brands to enjoy. With this freedom comes the responsibility of making the most of the time we all commit to clovio. The use of our time and activity tracking app facilitates this flexibility and freedom. clovions can dedicate their time to tasks and projects as required. When there isn’t progress on tasks and projects, we are inclined to look into this with the team member to ensure that we understand the challenges faced and can help the employee accomplish their goals . Thank you once again for your feedback. Wishing you happiness and the best of luck with everything!
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