Toxic work environment - Designer Insidesource Employee Review

1.0
Aug 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Free Friday lunches. Free snacks.

Cons

Management here is really lacking. They show no respect and treat you like you’re just an inexperienced little person. The supervisors or the lead designers talks down to you in a very condescending way. When you make mistakes, they don’t teach you the right way of doing things, but instead blame you. There’s no support from the immediate managers, or supervisors. This company is definitely plays a lot of office politics and plays favoritism. They will hire their incompetent friends that clearly can’t handle the jobs and fire the ones that actually gets the job done. There are no growth potential here and no raise. People here are hostile and unpleasant often fake. Playing the blaming game enables this bad behavior towards people. Especially the sales people, they’re hostile to the designers especially if we make mistakes because it effects the Sale’s commission or their “bottom line”. Working overtime 20 hours a week is consider normal and working on the weekends are expected. These are the days where we should be catching up on our workload. No work life balance. Just work you to death until they find another new person for these people to prey on.

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Insidesource Response
6y
Thank you. Your honest feedback is valued and appreciated. We care immensely about having a work environment where every employee feels valued and appreciated. To hear about your experience is truly disappointing. We’re currently working on rolling out management training initiatives to ensure managers at all levels are providing the right training, support and development. In the meantime, we encourage you to connect with HR to help address your specific concerns.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to share your positive experience, We're delighted to hear that you're enjoying your time as a Designer with Insidesource. It's great to know that our benefits package and convenient location are contributing to a positive work experience for you. We work hard to support our team members both professionally and personally, and feedback like yours lets us know we're on the right track. We appreciate you being part of the Insidesource team and look forward to continuing to support your success.
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Cons

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