Vantaggi
A very loving bunch of people some really talented people that I learned lots from. Nice to work for a well respected company that genuinely cares about giving users a crack at the whip making music. So lots of ways of being part of spitfire experience without having to pay. Pride and expectation to make the best.
Svantaggi
Obsession with releasing new products without making the most of one’s we’ve already released. Some departments well staffed whilst some were lamentably overworked. Lots of nepotism, most management former friends / colleagues of senior management. So two classes of staff. One that could back chat to their managers, and the rest walking on egg shells. Bad decisions made by board / senior management put onto rest of staff to work harder to fix them. Changing direction, moving of goals and goalposts weekly. Really confusing place to work. No sales team so whole company is doing two jobs their “actual” job and sales. No “qualified” HR team. Which for a company of 100 staff seemed crazy. Office absolutely massive with more dogs in it than people (I have slight allergy but main bug bear was anytime someone entered office it became a barking frenzy… v distracting). Whilst claiming to be diverse. Very mono-culture. If you don’t agree with a singular set of viewpoints or political standing you stand risk of being ostracised. So everyone goes along with very middle class, post graduate gen z myopic view of world and people. Meritocratic if that merit is hard work. They’ve lost some seriously talented people of late and don’t seem bothered by it. Meetings, just insane, can’t get anything done because flow is broken constantly by meetings. Really cringy top level management attempts at motivation (we were given lottery scratch cards as an Xmas bonus!) Creeping sense of corporatism. Since some leading creative individuals resigned it seems Spitfire has lost its mojo. Sense that if sales and promos don’t go well people will lose their jobs. Yet promos organised included livestreams of a drunken snr Spitfire exec holding a raffle! Whilst the company is diverse, it isn’t in the layers of upper management (all male board for example). I’ll mark spitfire down for this but also zero diversity of opinion. One of the creatives I mentioned earlier seemed to be harassed by staff for having a nuanced viewpoint. Including a petition against them returning to the office. I would go far as to suggest that bullying is accepted within Spitfire and goes unpunished provided it is politically correct bullying.