Cheeky Scientist Reviews

You will be overworked and underpaid. You will work weekends, holidays, while you are on vacation, when you are sick, early in the morning, late at night... you name it. You will be on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 12-14 hour days are not only common, but expected. The CEO is extremely manipulative, unprofessional, and will regularly belittle you in front of the entire team for no reason. If you bring up concerns about this or about other issues in the workplace, he will tell you to stop wasting his time or that you are being too sensitive. I truly would not wish working at Cheeky Scientist on my worst enemy. It’s a horrible experience and will leave you with borderline PTSD. I’m so happy I got out of there!

Most people joining the Cheeky group as job seekers end up becoming mentors by default; so in a sense it's a case of blind leading the lead. We ourselves had no clue but are made to conduct live facebook training on certain topics (despite not having had job success of our own). Too much chaos, as the CEO keeps expanding the member list to the facebook group. The few who are joining in at the interviewing stage may do well, but many job seekers who join are languishing due to lack of clear direction. You pay $$$ to join the program. Then the CEO keeps on adding newer $$$ courses, to compensate for the lack of adequate mentorship support or clear direction. You may join the Cheeky group as a job resource, but then you find newer groups with steep membership prices that make big promises and some kind of certificate program, but in essence the same wine in a new bottle. There's a Research scientist membership, Accountability membership, groups by every single job title you can find.