Croud Reviews

I am disappointed by some of the more serious and practical bits though. Last year, when the cost of living crisis began, the CEO promised in an All Hands that they would rise wages in April in line with inflation. April came and not only was there no pay rise, we were told that bonuses were not happening. No bonus and no pay rise in the current state of inflation is effectively at least a 15% pay cut. Besides this, they have decided that we need to be in the office at least 3 days a week despite that there's not enough parking or desk space to accommodate this. I will also now have to spend more money of my already cut salary on transport. The CEO kindly said that if we don't like it, there are plenty of other places to work. What a way to make us feel valued!

The internal and external communications, from the CEO and the senior team can be broken down into "The business is great and strong" "The business makes loads of money and profit". The reality is, everyone is struggling with incredibly low salaries and feels like their is no trust and support from the CEO and senior team. The other thing that makes my skin crawl.. While making redundancies and not paying people appropriate wages, the CEO talks and jokes about trying to become a billion pound agency... One we are a tiny company but two, when you aren't paying a living wage, how can you look at yourself in the mirror and say that in front of your team. There are more redundancies being announced, which is terrifying and genuinely we can all understand sometimes its necessary to steady the ship however to lie about it being so successful and to keep doing small rounds of redundancies secretly makes your nails bend. More clients lost as well which is so disheartening and again creates fear. It feels like this place is on the way down and so many of us are looking to get out.