Where to start? - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Backland Media

The genuine and caring people who worked there. They were my life raft when the management would regularly turn into a sea of madness. There was tea, and coffee and the hours were good.

Unfortunately this bit will be a lot longer. My experience with management was terrible. Not only did I have to deal with an incredibly sexist man who would regularly get off on power trips, but I also had to deal with a CEO who had no grasp on the reality of his business. After asking for opinions on a new system, they would tear you into pieces if you disagreed with him. Its a family run company, which would be nice if they family did their actual jobs like the rest of us. They would throw "we're a cool business" around a lot, but often it felt like an abusive husband saying "I'm doing this because I love you" after a bad beating. One of the problems with one of the main family members is that they are almost as bitter as the office coffee. They complained about everything from somone picking up their dead pets ashes, to you making a cup of tea. I'm honestly surprised they're still an active company, given the fact they fail to adapt time after time, kicking hard working members of the team to the curb. Backland Media is not the king of content. They are the king of fools. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried and failed to write a positive review on glassdoor: "phonies ahoy!"

When the day is over.

Backland Media, the so called "kings" of social media, but in reality - they know nothing. When applying for a job here you will be promised all sorts, when in reality, you're lucky to even have any sort of job security. When times are tough, you can say goodbye to your job. Rent to pay? Bills to pay? They don't care, they only look after themselves (unless you're engaged to someone high up in the company, then you don't need to even do any work) The so called "100 million reach weekly" they love to brag about is also a lie. During my time here the reach struggled to ever get to 30 million and for a page with 11 million likes - this is embarrassing. The company are running the page into the ground, posting jokes from 2009 that your grandma would forward to you in an email and posting clickbaity articles that no one wants to read. Oh and they're always looking for ways to get money from the fans, which has a 100% fail rate. The company is family run and quite frankly, if you're not part of the family... you're not important. The place is like the hunger games, it's a fight to keep your job, and the ones who are fighting the hardest are the ones not in the family as they're the only ones who actually do any work.