Spinutech Reviews

Over the past year, we have lost some of the most talented individuals in the agency world. Management assured us that 'everything is fine' and that 'we will get through this,' yet layoffs continued, and many were reportedly let go for questionable or illegitimate reasons. Upper management has become increasingly disengaged, avoiding meaningful connections with employees, likely due to the anticipation of more layoffs. Internally, we’ve struggled to retain high-paying clients because of disorganization and inefficiency. Instead of resolving issues, upper management seems to exacerbate them by overanalyzing and creating unnecessary complications, while failing to provide tangible solutions. This cycle has left our teams demoralized and unproductive. Many of the 5-star reviews are written by internal employees who were tasked with leaving positive feedback, according to what a department director shared with me. This company was once an incredible place to work, but after witnessing everything that has unfolded over the past four years, I would strongly advise anyone I know against working here.

The title says it all. The warmth and humanness that was so appealing about this place has disappeared. Teams are heads down working in their own little silos. They've taken the cue from leadership to withdraw from interaction and communication and are all just hanging on until they can get better jobs. The big signal shift was when they let go of the person who was actually in charge of "culture." She was the company's biggest cheerleader, always bringing us together and getting folks fired up, and losing that position was just the first of management's many bizarre decisions. Just saying, "Culture is important!" and "do more culture stuff!" isn't culture. Culture starts at the top. If it's not being prioritized by leadership, why should the team prioritize it? If leadership isn't leaving its values, why should the team? CEO no longer does weekly video chats that brought everyone together; small thing, but see above about culture and living your values. Communications actually sent from leadership are clearly from ChatGPT (one of the most popular training courses on Udemy for several weeks ahead of the biggest layoff was "ChatGPT for HR" which was, once again, indicative of so many of leadership's failures the last two years).