1. It is very clear there is a A team and B team of employees here at Disruptive. If you are not leadership friends or the sales team your work does seem to be recognized. If you are not making money, you are forgotten. It can be easy to reach out but leadership just refuses to move out if its comfort zone to create an inclusive space for EVERYONE. It also seems like leadership and certain people get special treatment in rules etc
2. There have been a lot of leaders here at Disruptive who have "gone different directions" but I do not believe that when I read the internal emails. A lot of those people thought differently than senior leadership and they got the boot. A lot of people here feel that they cannot be honest because there is punishment or isolation for those who think differently. If you want to promote radical candor, you need to allow radical candor to actually make changes from inside
3. For those of you who wonder what the culture is like its one of control. I have listened to countless company meetings talking about core values and the CEO promoting "self help" courses where he teaches you life skills as his goal is to make "millionaires" but none of those people will actually be millionaires because the room to grow is limited and they hire you cheap...I know this firsthand. Leadership only seems to hire new to industry employees and or newly graduated kids because they are easy to manipulate and by giving them food, improvement courses and things to "help" them it breeds a fake sense of loyalty and care. People are lower quality hires so you can be the person to "change their careers" and create a sense of loyalty. This is toxic and really manipulative
4. The pressure put on fulfillment is crazy and I see that everyday. A lot of the people hired in those positions are not ready for the client work placed on them and I hate seeing that. Disruptive has now put in a new company plan that has people performing in 90 days or they are let go. The pressure to learn the ropes in 90 days is really crazy to me consider the caliber we hire. On top of that rumors are that performance numbers will also soon be made public to the teams which also creates a lot of toxic competition within fulfillment teams. How is that motivating to rank yourself amongst your peers publically? Yikes.
5. There are tons of reviews and or comments Disruptive gets on the "street" and online if you look anywhere that its a "Man's World" mindset and reeks of bro-culture. From making new hires get up in front of the company and share embarrassing stories to introduce themselves, money games and bro "pump up" activities like throwing bread slices at each other to sexist comments this place really needs to step up if they want to grow into a modern and diverse company like they want to. The agency's wants to hire top talent but refuses to change company activities and policies to be inclusive of people. I follow our social media closely and saw that the LGBTQ post was taken down which I was sad to see. This is just one example of a company not willing to diversify, move out of its comfort zone and embrace "difference." Its strangle-held by a few men in controlling everything and it won't make the company a culture people will want to come to if they do not change...
