Disappointing - Should have not ignored the signs - Anonymous employee businessfourzero Employee Review

1.0
15 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some great talent in the team, with some genuinely lovely, talented individuals in the mix and coming in Nice new office location in Central London The Design work on all company docs and presentation is unique and identifiable. Best colours and branding of any consulting agency out there. Nice touches, like birthday cards and cakes occasionally. Breakfast once a month The offer box is a nice touch on confirming your contract, but it sets expectation high for joining.

Cons

"Transparency" is regularly used as code for invasion of privacy and to give ammunition to fuel negative feedback. "Pauses" are used to break individual’s confidence down by giving conflicting feedback which you’re then left to get on with alone. Sharing information in your induction sessions about how you work, your triggers and your biggest fears, to then have them used against you during feedback which is given unskilfully is quite damaging. A lot of potential is going to waste as employees start to doubt their own worth and second guess everything. Lack of trust and vision from senior leaders means they are not utilising the 'hybrid- talent' which they have hired (on false pretences). You're promised the opportunity to step-change your performance and grow with experience, but in reality, it is the same few chosen people who continue to get the bigger opportunities on client work and have their voice heard. You will be relentlessly pressured to open up your black book of new client contacts- with no reward, just embarrassment when they then get messed around by threezero changing meetings multiple times. Even though one of the values states “It is not purely about working longer hours, with no measurable increased outcome”. This is not the case at all. No USP now digital offer is gone- just another boutique consultants.

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businessfourzero Response
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I have to apologise that my response comes so late. On behalf of the wider team at businessthreezero, I was upset to have read your review not least because as you'll know, we pride ourselves on people leaving the business well and therefore I would have preferred for us to have talked about all of how you felt, before you left. That said, I would still love the opportunity to talk through everything with you, so do hope you'll take me up on the offer of a coffee. Whilst we are far from perfect - I firmly believe we've built an enviable business over the past 3+ years but of course we are always looking at ways to improve both what we do and how we do it. We've already made some changes to the business and the way we work since you'll have left and since this review was posted. My door is always open and look forward to hearing from you.

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