Freestart Reviews

3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

Earl Crooks

65% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Freestart has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 20 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Freestart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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20 reviews
1.0
24 Oct 2013
Recommend
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Pros

It's marginally preferable to being on benefits and going to the Job Centre every two weeks.

Cons

Poor product. Horrible working environment filthy office above an Italian restaurant. 2 toilets between 60 people. Tiny kitchen that stank of GAS Terrible managers. Virtually no training whatsoever a all.. Owned by a Jehovas Witness called Earl who actually said he would try to convert me. An employer trying to enforce his personal religious views on an employer is obviously not good.

1.0
5 Jun 2013

Demoralising

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the people who I worked with were genuinely nice and I made a couple of good friends in my time working for freestart. They were since let go at christmas as the company was downsizing.

Cons

Some staff (mainly the managers) are very rude and like to talk down to people and make them feel like idiots . I had not long left university before starting at freestart and I felt like being back in primary school again singing childrens songs and dancing around tables. It can be scary starting work after a life of education and doing odd jobs to pay off student loans. I had never felt so demoralised after my experience at freestart so I decided not to show up one day. My advice to anyone who is starting their first full time job is to go with your gut feeling and do what is right. Dont let bad companies put you off working. If it makes you unhappy the job isnt for you. It took a few months to find another job but I now work for plus net who are an excellent professional company to work for.

1.0
10 Sept 2018

I found it immoral and sneaky

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You won’t starve (if you don’t have rent to pay)

Cons

I’ve witnessed so many breaches of privacy. Every screen in new business sales was a yelp or similar directory and they would simply type in ‘flower business’ and ring every single number, just like somebody else did a few days before. There was no log of whether they had been called or weren’t interested, so they kept getting called. I would absolutely have considered it harassing. I also saw people scribbling down bank account details into notepads and haven’t let the customer know they’re doing that. I’ve seen other reviews from customers relating to storing card details when they say they haven’t and it is true that sometimes they were written down and not just entered into a billing platform. I was also pressured into selling unsuitable products/upsells to customers who I knew full well would not understand how to use them or it would be a waste of money for a small business who wouldn’t consider hundreds of pounds as small change. I found it quite immoral and I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody.

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