Pros
- A rare opportunity to get involved in digital marketing without the need to commute to London - Free soft drinks, pool table, and table football
Cons
Words can't describe how bizarre working for Submission Technology is - it was hands down the strangest experience of my life. Here's some examples of the goings on in head office that I experienced/witnessed: - Co-director purposely causing damage to an employee's vehicle "for a laugh", causing him to crash due to faulty brakes on the way home from work. Said employee left the business after director refused to issue an apology. - Multiple citations from the ASA (the specific citations are available publicly on ASA's website) due to illegal advertising practices seen as hilarious by senior management. - Directors literally becoming involved in a physical fight in the middle of the office floor over a website's design. - Website created advertising a fake partnership with a well known charity in order to make a quick buck. - Casual sexism and other forms of discrimination amongst certain members of senior management accepted and at times actively encouraged. - Creation of several incentive website properties (eg. cashback ladders) on which the business consciously fails to pay its members. Such activity was subject of an expose in The Guardian, and has not changed since. Reading what I've written above, it really is hard (even for myself) to believe some of those points are true - amazingly they all are! Submission Technology is the most ethically redundant business in the industry - anyone who is anyone in online marketing will tell you the same. My experience working with them filled me with anger, upset but most of all wonderment that a business so blatantly flouting guidelines continues to operate in pretty much the same way it always has.
