Abandon all hope ye who enter here - Anonymous employee PinkNews Employee Review

• Crucially, I can't think of a single person who has left PinkNews in a better place professionally, personally or mentally than before they went in. • Serious lack of diversity and representation in senior leadership - if you ain't white and cisgender, you ain't goin' anywhere in PinkNews. You don't have to scroll back far on Glassdoor to see the comments regarding race and this company. • The CEO is narcissistic, rash and irrational - for example telling the entire company that Liz Truss was good for business - and micromanages every single minute aspect of the business. Many people have the left from all departments in the company citing him as the reason why. • The COO is his husband - a cold, a compasionless presence who spends more time arguing with the CEO on company calls than leading in any meaningful direction. He's on his third or fourth restructure of the company at this point and a large number of job losses can be traced directly back to his poor business decisions. • The HR department serves only to enact their will and has no regard for employee wellbeing. If you go to them with a problem, you don't know if they're going to chew you out for bothering them or try and throw a company-wide party - because plying the workforce with alcohol is their usual answer to everything. A company shouldn't have an 'us vs them' mentality when it comes to its employees. • Anyone in senior leadership just says 'yes boss' to anything the CEO or COO says without any kind of thought, scrutiny or... whats' that word again... leadership. Mainly because they're worried about losing their inflated salaries. • The employee review structure is a joke and is never adhered to. It's impossible to engage in a meaningful conversation with any manager about career progression, working conditions or pay – unless you threaten to quit. • Communication is a abysmal. Staff are more likely to hear about company developments on Twitter than anywhere else. Internal memos read more like propaganda. It's demeaning, belittling and everyone has had enough of it. • Anyone who works in a creative roll spends most of their time pushing against the CEO's unhinged ideas. He cares more about the video team covering Trisha Paytas than anything meaningful. He'd rather the web team roll around in the dirt with right-wing extremists and further toxic culture wars than properly represent the queer community and amplify marginalised voices. He tells designers he wants to replace them all with AI on a regular basis. The COO often (metaphorically) stands behind him, shaking his fist and growling 'yeah' like a toddler hiding behind a high school bully. • There are zero benefits to working for the company - unless you consider the constant supply of alcohol a 'benefit'. The 'office' is in disarray. Employee initiatives are quickly and quietly dropped not long after being launched. Even the pension scheme is amongst the worst I've ever known - their contributing the absolute minimum they have to and are being disingenuous about this.