Freelancer reviews

A few adjectives to sum up the cons would be: stubborn, heartless, messy, uncomfortable. The company lacks a solid HR department. There is a lot of favouritism and a cliquey smell from a lot of the people in management. People get noticed by doing things just to please others. During my employment, not much was done to improve matters of discrimination, even though people voiced their opinion. Things were a bit disorganised and some serious issues were not addressed straight away. The CEO gets the final say a lot of the time. A lot of employees had to support their opinion, no matter how much research they did or how technically skilled they were. They rarely had their efforts recognised and were seen as easily replaceable. Most people want to go home and forget about work, but the company works around the clock. It may bleed quietly into your personal time. There is always work to be done. The company is fast-paced, changes are pushed every day – most people like that, some people don’t. It’s hard to count how many times an employee left or was dismissed for little good reason. The company is sickeningly good at hiding an employee’s departure, but word often got around quickly. The salary is alright, but doesn’t seem to meet industry standards. Be prepared to receive very little, if any, pay rise. It seemed that only people who were liked were rewarded in such a way. Generally, if you believe a facade of perks will make your sub par income more bearable, then you won’t have any trouble fitting in.

Management was adversarial and cliquey. They would alternate between being uninterested in a project, then micro-managing. Projects were cancelled regularly due to lack of resources. People would be fired out of the blue and turnover was higher than it should've been. Salaries were decided by haggling more than any kind of official pay range.