Avoid at all costs - Digital Marketing Specialist Tamar Employee Review

1.0
20 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pros of Tamar are that you get a LOT of experience really quickly, because they completely throw you in at the deep end with no training and no warnings. You'll be on client calls before you know it, trying to explain why you can't build links (because they take a 75% of media spend) or why work hasn't been delivered yet (because everyone keeps quitting)

Cons

Where to start?! Management are absolutely dreadful, especially the client services 'team'. Tamar don't invest in skills or staff, and expect you to work all the hours under the sun. Workloads are completely unmanageable, and you'll spend most of your day ripping your hair out. I can't stress enough how badly they treat staff.

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1.0
1 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The self-obsessed CEO might get you a drink on a friday. That's it. You're rushed into learning, which isn't ideal for everyone.

Cons

Pitiful wage for a large amount of work. The client's might be paying a boat-load for the service, however that doesn't trickle down to the hardworking staff. A certain senior member of staff wouldn't/couldn't carry the load (pun intended), and would rather think about her daily alcoholic beverage and spend hours on Facebook than help the team. Laptops don't always work. They'll blast the same 20 songs over again until you want to kill yourself, and you can't even out headphones on to concentrate. The 2 month notice period is horrid and unacceptable, especially for a young graduate who they only seem to hire. Staff turnover is unreal. You'll see a round of new staff every 3-4 months. You'll have to walk the CEO's dog. The stress you'll encounter will make you re-evaluate a career in SEO. No progression in the company (like you'd want it anyway after a week). Company website is hardly ever up to date, with old clients still up. If you're genuinely ill or have medical issues, they will not care one bit about you. It's about getting the work done to deadlines, never about you as a person. You're dispensable to Tanya and her company.

3
1.0
4 Aug 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Quick experience that got me another job. - Nice neighborhood.

Cons

- Horrible, self obsessed, hysterical (heard her screaming at one of the employees behind the closed doors just because something was not the way she wanted it to be) and arrogant CEO. - If you were a grad your had the lowest position in the company. Literally your duties included dog walking, shopping for Tanya's personal needs at Boots across the road, getting her coffee, i.e. cheap labor. In fact, she would never approach you for that directly, rather she would ask one of her associates to do that, e.g. "XX, could you please ask YY to go down to Boots and buy me bla bla". - Salary paid to grads when I worked there was so low that it was literally impossible to survive in London. - Staff was treated in a very bad way unless you were very close to Tanya, but even then she managed to lose few of her closest 'friends' aka colleagues who left the company for better opportunities (I hope). - Clients were constantly fed with some nonsense, e.g. 'PPC is dead, SEO is not', ' we will deliver 369 links by the end of the month' etc etc. ------ List can go on, but I will stop here. If I could put 0 stars I would.

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