Friendemic Reviews

Unfortunately, the downsides outweigh the pros by a lot. Early in 2017, they went through a merger with GoFanbase, and things went downhill from there. By the time I left the company, about 15 people had quit since the beginning of the year and the number has only gone up. I'm not saying that change isn't good, but they changed things in a way that was illogical. They went from having teams that had a manager and several other members with multiple responsibilities to splitting our job roles up into different departments. This (along with adopting a million different software systems, having no processes figured out beforehand, and creating a culture where we have to get approval for even tiny things) made the company structure far too complicated. I, among other people, was regularly confused about who we were supposed to go to when we needed things to get done. It was also a huge slap in the face when they made these role changes and they made a decision for a lot of the employees. Most job roles had significantly fewer responsibilities and a were a waste of our skills and talent. Management doesn't seem to notice or care about people's talents and use them to their advantage. The company culture has always been difficult to deal with and is only getting worse. Ever since I started, I felt like most (not all) of the people who ever got promotions or raises were people who were either "cool", were friends with people in management, and/or were flat out obnoxious. Moreover, they weren’t always the best workers. I also felt that some of these people took credit for others accomplishments. Management took away a lot of the tools that were used to recognize people's accomplishments, and you have to fight tooth and nail to get a raise. Management believes three things when it comes to raises: 1) Promotions don't always come with a raise (even when it requires more responsibility); 2) tenure at the company doesn't merit a raise (even when it means the employee has more experience and loyalty); and 3) we should be happy to work there even though we get paid very little. People who have asked for a raise are often faced with management asking them to accomplish a never ending list of tasks or with a thinly veiled lecture on how the company is filled with entitled millennials who should just be content to work there because it's a fun start-up culture. While this is a good job if you’re just starting out, you do not learn a lot of professional skills here. It’s the little things you never end up learning: crafting good emails; thinking on your feet; making judgment calls on your own; handling responsibility; resolving disputes with co-workers; etc.

I finally feel comfortable enough to leave this review. I want to start off by saying I WAS SO UNDERPAID. It's insane. Shame on Friendemic for overworking their employees and paying them this low. College grads, you can find so much better. Don't settle for these nonsensical salaries. Cool your clients are mainly automotive. But it becomes really boring and redundant really quickly. The clients stick to the same thing and just go with it each month. It starts to feel robotic just producing the same old work. Friendemic’s own social pages get minimum engagement. Because you deal with a boring, old clientele. Become more creative, open up to other fields, target a more interesting audience. The amount of employee overturns I saw within a year is crazy. Please tell me how the company is reputable when a fellow co-worker starts and then receives an alarming complaint from a team member just a week later. I saw employees pack their lives up to move to a new office and get fired last minute. Upper management will fire people with ease. People constantly keep asking you guys to INFORM employees if they’re not performing well before just firing them out of the blue. But no. The review below me is correct – they do not have any empathy. There is this manager we all know of, who started from the bottom and worked her way up, overtaking everyone and taking over their jobs. She is favored way too much. A very small amount of people actually like her. She’s frustrating to many. She is so fake to her teams, it’s not even funny. I liked the older manager much better. The CEO made a really bad decision letting her go. CEO, stop picking and choosing people. But I don’t really care anymore because I’ve peaced out. So good luck to everyone who has to deal with this annoying favoritism and unfair treatment. They make you sign a noncompetition contract, which I really feel like held me back when I applied to like, hundreds and hundreds of jobs. Whatever you guys did or said when someone called for a reference, it’s not that deep. Let your employees move on and work somewhere else. We need to make some dang money. I’m not going to sit here and pretend like I’m perfect and I make no mistakes. EVERYONE makes mistakes. Even my manager did. But some people are given chances and some people aren’t. (I’ll let you interpret that). When an employee opens up and shares what they’re going through, listen and make the right move. Not asking for pity, but I was SO depressed coming into work most days. Life exists outside of work - and some of us challenge the worst things in life. I truly commend myself because I never complained, I never let anyone in my office know I was depressed, I worked my butt off, and I took whatever criticism I was given with a great attitude. I always, always responded to my coworkers nicely, even if some of them sounded rude. But when I tried to resolve things, my words didn’t matter. I got some nonsense excuse about something that I KNOW I resolved. My point is, depression exists. It is real. And many of your employees have it. How great would it be if the upper management helped with this? One can only wish… HR doesn’t care and does not resolve anything. Employees get to anonymously submit their concerns and questions, but the important ones never get answered in meetings. They do not like hearing the truth. They’re sugar-coating a lot of things. It’s sad because they hire new people and let them believe everything is rainbows and butterflies. I think all my coworkers in MY office are really talented. Honestly, I think they deserve to be working for someone better. I don’t think the company is doing so great financially. They cut so many budgets and employee perks and they’re letting people go left and right. Kind of makes me feel bad for them. Even though this job ended not-so-greatly for me, I wish Friendemic well. Other companies are flourishing and evolving, so let’s hope you do too.