Stay away - Unfair, Unprofessional, Unfriendly, Stressful Gossipy Environment - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso bimm

1,0
26 ott 2017
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Great location Interesting (unfortunately dwindling) clients - good for portfolio

Svantaggi

1. CEOs are worried more about the bottom dollar than the employees that do the work for them and the clients who pay them. 2. CEOs expect everyone to work overtime (evenings and weekends) all the time!! MD CEO believes that's how the company will make a profit 3. Extremely High Turn Over Rate - frustrated employees leaving without adequate knowledge capture and transfer - employees spend a great deal of time trying to figure things out, wasting time, resources and angering clients because of delay/lack of response - loss for the clients and employees end up looking incompetent and are blamed for everything 4. No process whatsoever - the mindset is just get projects done asap to maximize profit without proper planning even if the client provides sufficient budget for things to be done properly. 5. Too many juniors with senior titles because its cheaper to hire them and promote them with small raises then hiring experts to lead the juniors. On client service side, 90% of the team are new graduates with no experience, again that's how the company saves money at the expense of clients. 6. Blatant favouritism (based on what you look like - infer from that what you like) Favored employees are allowed to come running to CEO MD's office to complain or make up allegations against their co-workers rather than make an attempt at resolving the issue like professional adults, other side is not given an opportunity to defend themselves. And all this ends up in a.) Lack of basic office decorum, incompetence b.) Demoralizing work environment where dis-favored employees are set up to fail c.) Imbalance of power among employees & unfair promotions d.) No team spirit - Blame game all across the minute a failure happens e.) Unfriendly, stressful environment f.) All around Bad company culture 7. Too much office politics and gossip - CEO MD vindictive captain gossip himself, has a gossip party at his office and once your names comes up, it basically becomes hell to stay. 8. CEO will not hesitate to humiliate, berate and yell at otherwise stellar employees for a simple one time mistake, simply because he does not like you and will ignore a mountain of mistakes from employees whom he likes 9. No loyalty or appreciation for current or past employees CEO has uttermost contempt for former employees who have resigned, goes out of his way to talk about them in an unprofessional, inaccurate, dismissive mean-spirited manner for the sake of discrediting their work and contribution (mores so if the employees happen to have moved on to go work at competing agencies) 10. Egomaniac CEO MD is extremely pretentious and tries way too hard to be hip/cool vs being fair, decent, professional, objective and a problem solver

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Risposta di bimm
8y
Hi there, its Mike Da Ponte (CEO MD), Thank you for your honest feedback. We will take all of your input and strive to be better. What I can say for sure, owning and running a business in the Advertising industry is hard and not to mention STRESSFUL. When I decided to cash in all of my RSP, Mortgage my house and my parents home to invest in BIMM, it did one thing to me....appreciate what it takes to be successful in this business. It's a 24/7 endeavor and often thankless. But one thing above all that I've never forgotten and it lives and breathes in our values as an Agency and that is OUR PEOPLE! They are the lifeblood of our organization and the reason BIMM was voted Canada Digital Agency of the year and Canada's TOP 100 Employer. One primary goal as an organization is to MAKE BIMM AN AWESOME PLACE TO WORK AND HAVE AN AMAZING CAREER. As you know, we have strong values that govern our company. They are etched in steel in our office for everyone that works and visits our office. The one value that I'm proud of is "have your BIMMERS back'. I agree with you, turnover is high in our industry but what I can say is that BIMM in the last five years has experienced an attrition rate of nearly 50% less than the industry average. As an organization, we're proud that people who work here go on to have AMAZING careers and many of them are currently senior leaders within the industry and who we currently have close relationships with. I'm proud of that because I feel we are a small part of their success. As for the CEO worried about peoples opinions or wanting to be hip or cool. I learned a long time ago to embrace my nerd and stopped trying to fit in with any crowd when I was 16. It was hard to be cool when you carried a violin through high school for 5 years :). As for your comment regarding people at BIMM being yelled at or publicly humiliated for making an error. Not a chance! One of our values is "don't be afraid to fail". We celebrate people who go beyond good enough and fail while doing it. We believe it the only way people can grow. Again thank you for your feedback, I hope you have found an amazing place to work and its all of the things you need to be fulfilled in your career. If you ever need anything, we are here to provide advice or support. All the best to you in your future career endeavors. Thank you, Mike Da Ponte President & CEO Voted Canada's TOP100 Employers Strategy Magazines Silver Digital Agency of the Year

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5,0
19 mag 2019
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Great place to work, they promote within, yearly raises with a non-stressful work environment. I enjoyed every moment there and everyone I met.

Svantaggi

The company closed due to the owner of the building is building a strip mall.

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Risposta di bimm
7y
LOL. Thank you for your 5 star rating. We are glad you had such a great time. But to correct you, BIMM is very much open and flourishing. Although we love a good strip mall, we can say for certain that we haven't become one :). In fact, we're happy to say our Toronto office is growing and our new Montreal office is killing it. We're super excited about our planned expansion into a new US city...more to come on that. Stay tuned. All the best in your new endevours, whoever you are.
4,0
30 ott 2017
Collaboratore esterno anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

-Great place to work, lots of personal development opportunities and friendly open atmosphere. -Very invested in the individual and their own personal happiness and growth -Wants business to be successful and the management lives it and breathes it.

Svantaggi

-Hard place to work if you are looking for a free ride

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