The biggest regret of my career. - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso GetHarley

Where to begin. This company is a mess, which is so disappointing because it seems so promising from the outside; lots of funding, values you want to be a part of, promises of career opportunities at a successful woman-led startup. Unfortunately, this company and the way it treats its employees couldn’t be further from the truth. I left a company that really values their employees to come work at GetHarley because I love skincare and thought it was a great opportunity for me but from the get-go I was incredibly undervalued. The workload is impossible, and you are expected to do everything with a can-do attitude without voicing concerns should you have any. They overwork everyone on the basis it’s a “startup”, but everyone is underpaid for the amount of work they are doing. Salaries are inconsistent within each team, and GH recently made an attempt to “benchmark” these salaries and “ensure everyone is paid fairly” but it’s all for show, again especially when you consider the amount of work that everyone is undertaking, something I suspect was not included in the process of salary benchmarking. This company is constantly trying to automate processes but for every step forward, there are 5 steps back and the automation is failing miserably. When the automation is going poorly or another area is struggling (as they often do), management blame employees instead of trying to improve systems. On the subject of management, this company is incredibly nepotistic and very few people will get career opportunities, and most who do only do so because they’re friends with senior management. Many entry level employees struggle to get a salary bump or a promotion but the managers are constantly being promoted, which breeds a really toxic and stressful environment. To add to it all, there is so much micromanaging from certain individuals in management, who treat the employees like they are beneath them. All this company is good at is giving people the runaround and giving bs excuses. It’s no wonder that if people aren’t fired (which happens quite often), they quit because they don’t want to be treated poorly. Many people leave without anything lined up because that is still a better option to them than working here. When I left, my exit interview was cut short before I had the chance to voice all my concerns, which was disappointing but not at all surprising. It’s also really not surprising that most of the people who’ve left this company had long tenures at their previous roles and a really short tenure here. I’ve worked in a few industries and this is the worst I have ever been treated at a company, the most undervalued I have ever felt, and the most toxic environment I have ever worked in. There’s so much more I could say but I urge anyone who is thinking of working here to please not listen to the good reviews, there’s a reason they all sound so similar. If I could take back working at this company, I would.