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There are Better Opportunities - Anonymous employee BluShark Digital Employee Review

2.0
7 Mar 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Decent benefits -Ability to lean on team members for help with projects -DC office, perfect for enjoying the city during the week -You will learn your worth (at some personal cost)

Cons

Incredibly toxic work culture with questionable managers in place. This isn't the place for creatives and free-thinkers to flourish, you are heavily judged on your love for the company above all else. Employees have been criticized for NOT working past COB, and some managers have unfortunately pressured employees to sacrifice much of their personal lives for the sake of their job (which pays far below industry average). Some managers are inconsistent in the benchmarks they set for employees as well as compensation agreements. Be prepared to record each and every conversation you have with ANYONE in management at this company. Not doing so puts you at risk of managers successfully gaslighting you. Some managers will also ignore you if it's more convenient for them to do so, entirely contradicting the "family" culture they try to instill of the minds of employees. Interviewing? Ask why the turnover rate has been exceedingly higher than industry average for the last 4 years. Sadly, I could say so much more, but I won't. Instead, I will leave you with this: the amazing thing about the DC area is that there are ENDLESS opportunities for Digital Marketing, Content Writing, and Analytics. Please do yourself a favor and look some place else.

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BluShark Digital Response
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Thank you for your feedback and positives regarding our company benefits and team. We are disappointed to learn of your negative view of our company culture and a team of managers dedicated to individuals' success within the agency. We have never criticized employees for not working past COB. Instead, we ask that team members display an ownership mentality over their work and emphasize that working past the close of business is not the sole way to show that and actually chat with members to encourage them to sign off. We want our team to show up as their best selves each day at work, and we know that you cannot give 100% if you don't have a proper work-life balance in place. Our turnover rate is proudly below the average given the Great Resignation. We never have and will never publish fake reviews to our Glassdoor page and actually don't even encourage managers or team members to write reviews because we don't want them to feel pressured to give non-authentic feedback. Our goal is to learn from the feedback of current and former team members for the betterment of the company as a whole.

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