Halstead Media Reviews

Like many, I went into my role with so much hope for a collaborative environment (or even a tenable one for employment), particularly because there is so much talk of being a "feedback culture." The constant insistence that feedback is taken into account goes against the actions of management. These are just a few of the unfortunate issues: -A group of kind and capable employees are trying to handle the work of a team double their size. -Weekly meetings are spent asking everyone to move "more efficiently" and acting confused when errors occur despite the lack of support. -There is the facade of training, but very minimal time to complete the training. -PTO doesn't kick in for 90 days. -There is a high level of undermining and gaslighting from upper management. -I regularly witnessed employees bullied in front of the whole team during all-company meetings. No one deserves that, ever. To those still there: I remember the sense of uneasiness in meetings the moment I got there. There are better things out there and you all deserve to be treated like the pros you are.

- Toxic Micromanagement at every level by leadership - Leadership openly admits to manager level employees they rather an employee quit, so often they will “help” that process along by making work uncomfortable, and this is a huge con and a red flag. - too many hats have to be worn at all times by both management and delivery teams, leading to unnecessary head butts between employees just trying to do right by customers. - ratio of project managers to delivery team is unsustainable, leading to inevitable missed opportunities and client experience mismatch. - toxic work environment perpetuated by owners - unclear expectations, until the expectations are made clear only after being berated by leadership that have morphed and changed day to day hour by hour minute by minute. - management accuses delivery team of not matching deliverable standards, while when questions or expansions of those deliverables needs a finite or line level training, employee must pay out of pocket for training for taxed payroll income reimbursement - or leadership defaults to “I guess I’ll just do it” and never really does. Leading too poor results and further berating by leadership.