Complete Inadequacy - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Social Driver

Everything else. Social Driver is one of those places where you arrive, get really excited about the culture and work they do, and soon realize that it's completely hollow and the work they produce is incredibly low quality. While it's hard to pinpoint exactly what the real issue is with this company, there are certainly MANY factors that play into its incompetence, including the fact that their turn over rate is through the roof. My first issue with them is their management. Directors, senior, and higher-level employees frequently lack much more experience than their subordinates, stunting the growth of teams and leaving a lack of structure. In order to learn and improve, you need people with real experience. While it's expensive, it's necessary. This shortsightedness definitely contributes to the low-quality work. Speaking of payment, it's painfully lacking. Despite being advertised as a "startup", Social Driver has been around for 7 years...long enough for them to figure out how to pay people a living wage. Contrary to what they've told their employees, they're paid far below industry standard. Aside from this, raises, compensation, and reimbursement are almost non-existent. Any work that was done while working over time (i.e. working natural disasters and power outages overnight) rarely receives anything more than a pat on the back, if that. Which brings me to my next point - the people. No one would argue that in today's world, company culture is incredibly important. You have to like who you work with, and for the most part, you will at Social Driver. You'll find a lot of talented, hard-working, friendly people who lack experience outside of Social Driver i.e. at a real, functioning agency. This realization has lead to the swift exit of nearly a dozen employees over the course of only a few months and while of course, it's the nature of the business, people grow where they're planted. If you're not receiving any water, sunshine, or a living wage - there's only so far you can go here. Culture. Despite my previous statement about the importance of culture (and it is!), it has to be built around something. In Social Driver's case, it's this phrase: "Future is bright progress is social and the drivers make history". Now if you asked any of the employees aside from the CEO what this means, I'm not sure anyone could tell you as 1) they've refused to hire new people and continue to push out mediocre work (future is bright), 2) while being on social media is progressive (not really), in order to be truly progressive, you have to care about the work you do, have opinions, and not scale back the use of social media (progress is social), and 3) "drivers make history" as in, they're making their exit. From people crying at their desks to utter disregard of work-life balance, I could go on and on about the reasons to overlook this company, both for the future hire and for someone looking to grow their companies presence. For the hopeful hire looking at Social Driver, hoping what I'm saying is false, I wish it was. The bare minimum you can hope for a smaller company is that they care for their employees rather than choosing to put their value in a handful of people who have been there for far too long, but this isn't the case. For the company looking to grow their business by turning to digital - look elsewhere. There are so many companies in this city and around the country that do what Social Driver does, but with actual expertise and consideration for messaging. Improvements need to be made in order to make this a sustainable company in a very competitive market, and it's been made clear to a lot of us that Social Driver is operating below the competition. If you want a future in the world of digital, this might be a decent place to break in, but you'll hit your ceiling pretty quickly.