The company is completely fine with its unethical operations - Anonymous employee Brandyourself Employee Review

1.0
15 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free occasional chip bags? The bathroom is working at least on the shared workspace floor.

Cons

If you're in need of Online Reputation Management services and are considering using BrandYourself's service, I highly recommend you don't. Employees, managers and the C-suite know it doesn't work most of the time (probably 50% of clients end up dropping before their contract is up). If you're a prospective employee looking for a job opportunity, you should know that 1) it's highly unlikely you'll see a raise, 2) it's a revolving door, 3) there is no culture, and 4) you will be treated like you are worthless. The company doesn't see you as a budding individual with an opportunity to build your professional skill set. Instead, as someone below put it beautifully, you are a content drone. Your sole purpose is to write a mind-numbing amount of blog posts, ghostwritten for someone who has committed a heinous crime. You will also deal with many, many angry customers who aren't seeing the results they paid for. Prepare to take a verbal lashing often.

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Brandyourself Response
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Thanks for the feedback. It’s important for us to take stock and improve. It’s true that part of working here is having difficult conversations with clients but we think this is a valuable communication skill. We also strive to treat all of our clients with respect and lack of judgment since many of them are dealing with highly personal and sensitive issues. One of our top three service objectives for 2017 is to improve efficacy and to help we’ve invested in positions related to more robust training and SEO R&D. As far as raises go, it’s very rare for team members not to receive a raise after a year. If they don’t, they are given goals to work toward before we make that adjustment. While we we don’t invest heavily in perks like wall to wall snacks, fridges full of beer, etc. we have made some improvements to the environment recently: - Catered lunch once a month from rotating local spots - Healthy snacks, coffee, and tea ordered daily (NYC just got a new cold brew machine!) - Employee of the month competition - as voted for by the employees! Prizes range from $100 gift cards, $250 hard cash to a $1000 office event in your honor - Company sponsored happy hours - when we’ve earned them! We want everyone who joins BY to get something from the experience and all feedback helps so thanks again.

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