Pros
The are not many but the team at lower level and the central London Location. There are some extremely talented people but all that talent is lost with weak leadership and toxic company cultures from the top down.
Cons
HR & Upper Management. The CEO and his family continual gaslighting of staff that they 'care' about their employees. This company has changed considerably since the CEO change a few years ago. There's been a conscious effort to do as little as possible to support or keep staff as there is a cultural belief everyone is easily replaceable and loyalty is not required. There will be always some mug to work ridiculous hours on minimal pay or benefits? There is a supposed private, anonymous survey system for complaints and comments which is distributed between staff every six months. Mid managers openly discuss what individual staff have written as the system is not actually anonymous. Benoy are really happy to exploit people's good will and hard work to the point of burnout. There's little or no opportunity to truly express how much pressure one is under as work & profit come first right? There's no QA or technical management of design processes from Stage 3 onwards, with major implications of the quality of work. This in turn, then ends up in a frenzy at Stage 5 to rectify fundamentally flawed earlier design work. It is too easy for technically weaker staff, to pull the wool over supposedly senior, experienced staff. Management have their favourites and it is difficult to navigate the favouritism. During the Pandemic, it was clear the company only used the Furlough system as they were bullied into this by everyone's dismay at making redundancies one week into the March 2020 UK lockdown. Benoy HR eventually put people on Furlough, but there was a handful number of staff who were made redundant straight away. This doesn't really fit the 'family' firm ethos that it is constantly rammed down the employees' throats? It is a slow death of a thousand cuts working at Benoy - this place destroys your soul, slowly until you finally notice the level of burnout. The Head of London has no connection his Design studio and is never there. What he does nobody knows.