Pros
- Wider trader community is incredible to work within. So many wonderful business entrepreneurs to work with and learn from. Working with them the best part of the role. - Training options are a bonus - budget given to individuals that they can spend as they see useful (within reason) so can help your personal growth. - Team trips are a nice bonus (although after a while actual bonuses would have been preferred) - Food and drinks - thanks to the traders you will get to be around and try the best food London has to offer. - London based fun company teams so if you like socialising a lot it’s great place to work. The people can make or break a company.
Cons
- Consistently understaffed. Multiple meetings over staffing and work load capacities with senior management and CEO with minimal improvements across the years. Only frank conversation with CEO about potential quitting ever slightly improved the situation. - As within any events role there are long hours but there was insufficient compensation for these - with no overtime payment or sufficient time off in lieu policies. Time off offered was not in line with hours worked and impossible to use when company is understaffed. - Company values can often be used as a way to make you believe you should be grateful to work there whilst being underpaid and overworked. Most definitely used whilst on furloughed to make you feel you still should be doing some work because you were privileged to still have a role. If you aren’t working all hours possible you aren’t dedicated enough to the team. (Running joke of “I’ll get that to you at the end of the day… my end of the day is midnight tonight”) - Payrise request rarely considered or given. Always with the promise of better next time that never materialised. Seen company wide from assistant to senior level. - Sales team ever doesn’t offer commission structure. Meaning it doesn’t matter how good you are at your sales job there is no finance reward for you personally but huge financial gains for the company. - Redundancies due to covid handled very badly. Staff made redundant post furlough whilst there were still job opportunities within the company based on the events that did go ahead within the next month. Instead these staff offered low paid hourly work post furlough once complaints had been made to HR. Also promised to be offered roles back once through the pandemic instead roles posted to LinkedIn and previous staff never contacted. - HR doesn’t feel very confidential often personal relationships within the company are privvy to any and all HR issues brought to them.