Beautiful Digital Reviews

I have never left a Glass Door review before, but given how toxic and damaging this company is to its staff, I felt that it was important to warn people about this company - avoid at all costs. The directors of this company do not care about staff at all. You will be overworked, underpaid, gaslit and blamed for anything that the directors can blame you for, and when you reach out for support you’ll be told to just get on with it. You will be expected to work over your contracted hours every day, and also at weekends and on bank holidays if needed and there will be no reimbursement, let alone a thank you. On the odd occasion you do get a thank you, or slight praise you’ll soon realise there’s no real meaning behind it and it's just to keep you 'sweet' for a while. You’ll also need to have your own laptop and phone, and use your phone/WhatsApp for all work communications, which means you’ll find it very hard to have a life outside of this job and yes the directors will expect you to reply to weekend and out of hours messages. Don’t bother trying to go above and beyond, many people have tried over the years and they actually just get knocked back and denied promotions - they do not like people doing anything other than following their strict instructions, even if it goes against what their paying clients are asking for. The two company directors barely get on and have different approaches to everything, so while you’re struggling with your workload and priorities, they’ll be arguing over which of their clients you should be prioritising, making it even more challenging to do your job. The company is always understaffed and everyone is always overworked and burnt out. They have an extremely high turnover and the majority of staff are unhappy and even want to change careers after working here. Half of the staff are apprentices on ridiculously low salaries and within a short period of time, they basically do the same job as junior/mid level account managers, who are on more than double their salary. Even then the pay is very low for the level of work expected. This company is not worth your time or mental health.

If you want to be called ‘rude and unkind’; if you want to be gaslit into thinking the expectations of this company are at all reasonable and normal; if you want to not be paid what you’re worth - this place is for you. Tom Peacock and James Quinn, founders of Beautiful Digital, do not deserve to have their own company or be managers of staff. They may have the drive to attempt to build a business, but they certainly don’t have the people skills or have even one empathetic bone in their respective bodies to be remotely decent managers. It might help if they communicated, but they don’t even like each other so really what can you expect. Staff time and again have volunteer that they are "the worst part of Beautiful Digital". They view people as machines, and will prop you up with toxic positivity and "encourage" you, pushing past your boundaries when you’re already maxed out on bandwidth and past the point of burn out. They don’t listen to the needs of their staff, barely support implementing morale boosting activities, and being a member of senior staff just means you get to be the person blamed when things go wrong (because obviously the client can never be wrong even when they are). They take advantage of being young and hungry, and will happily never take the blame even when it’s their fault. You will learn stress, pain and heartbreak, and continuously wonder why you voluntarily put yourself in this situation. The pay doesn’t even cover the bare minimum, and there are virtually no benefits. Everyone is miserable because there aren’t resources in order to properly function, and then the accounts team is blamed for the company’s inefficiencies time and time again. As a result, it’s a revolving door of staff and clients. I wish I could post screenshots of the toxic environment that is Beautiful Digital because of the founders of the company. The founders are unfortunately involved in day-to-day operations, so there’s no escaping their hot headed, aggressive tempers, and you truly never know when the bomb will go off. This company is NOT worth the heartache.