If it was possible to give 0 stars I would - Customer Success Team Manager Goodlord Employee Review

1.0
21 May 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I would be scraping the barrel to find one.

Cons

If I could rate this employer lower than 1 star, I would. Despite their claims of prioritising employees, their mental health and adhering to values, once joined these are completely absent in practice. Senior management lacks direction, shifts blame onto employees, and avoids accountability but will forever tell you to hold yourself accountable. There's no support for career progression, and requests for help with self improvement are met with informal performance reviews. The majority of the department is unhappy, with management's response being 'leave if you don't like it.’ Which most of the team have done and are now doing! Transparency regarding financial matters exists, but not regarding mitigation strategies for losses, resulting in frequent redundancies (I see 3 separate rounds over 18 months) which also made keeping the team settled and ready to hit target an impossible task. Employees are overworked, underpaid, and rarely praised, with criticism far outweighing support. Questioning decisions is discouraged and labeled as negativity. Pay raises are scarce and inadequate, with trivial incentives offered such as Pizza for lunch for rewards of hard work, because apparently if you say thank you or praise the staff “too much” they will think they are doing well when “they are not” despite being over worked. My team were forever putting out fires with customers, with rarely any positive calls or feedback from customers and last but not least the customer success team are not respected by the business or Senior Management AT ALL , We were consistently being told by Senior Management that they were forever trying to justify the need for Success and its budget on every SMT meeting yet they are the pillars to holding it all up. Overall, it's best to avoid this company.

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Goodlord Response
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Thank you for your review; you’ve clearly put a great deal of thought into this. Your feedback does not match the experience of the vast majority of our colleagues. We take a great deal of care to collect data anonymously from internal surveys, external surveys such as Great Place to Work as well as reviewing exit interviews and other metrics to make sure that the view that people feel well supported and happy is accurate and valid. Like many growing companies, particularly in the tech space, we’ve had to make changes to our structure and have been open about this and given opportunities for redeployment into other roles. We’re proud to offer a self-improvement budget of £1000 to all colleagues which supports growth, career pathways for our teams and a suite of mental health and wellbeing support from free counselling to performance coaching. Your feedback has prompted us to do an all-colleague reminder of our available benefits through our weekly company All-Hands meeting…thank you for that. Once again, we appreciate your time in writing the review - please feel free to to contact us at people@goodlord.co if you wish to discuss any of your points further.

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