- The agency has no identity, constantly changing business direction and its website. Priority was taken away from client work for this.
- No training or development support to progress your career. Essentially just stuck at one level. There’s no yearly talent reviews or anything like that either so you don’t get much official feedback.
- Zero senior leadership team so you’re left with no guidance or frameworks. Well experienced and actually knowledgeable people aren't remotely interested due to the very low salaries offered in job ads. Cheap, inexperienced seniors are hired, fail probation then rinse and repeat at the detriment to the whole agency and its clients.
- The CEO would punish the whole staff roster because of just one person’s spell of poorer performance. Work from home days taken away, flexible working taken away, increased micromanaging, monitoring what time you arrive and leave etc - this happened multiple times. The atmosphere and general day to day became uncomfortable and miserable.