Employs great people, overworks them, underpays them - Anonymous employee CG Life Employee Review

2.0
14 Nov 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people they find to hire at CG are fantastic. Highly knowledgeable and motivated, many with advanced degrees and a warm demeanor. The atmosphere is casual and laid back, teams are great about respecting time off and picking up slack for team members who need help or are on leave.

Cons

The wonderful people they hire at CG quickly become frustrated due to a lack of onboarding (a 30-60-90 plan which is just a checklist of videos to watch and nothing more), no mentorship and managers who got promoted without ever having demonstrated an ability to manage well. Many account managers have no idea about the substance of the accounts they manage, writers are overly relied upon to manage their accounts AND produce content, but are barely paid enough to do one of those jobs. Promotions come slowly if they come at all. Many employees are hired right out of academia so they are well qualified but paid poorly which leads to high turnover. Management doesn't seem to think its tone deaf to announce a sabbatical program for employees with over 6 years of service (a criteria only the highest level directors meet) while everyone else gets just under two weeks vacation annually. Everyone seems to run on a mantra of 'you'll figure it out' without putting in the time and training necessary to help employees learn and grow and impart institutional knowledge. Many knowledgeable and hardworking people are employed here and they will be shocked how much more money they can make and how much less chaotic their lives will be once they leave for a better structured company that actually invests in training and retaining its employees.

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CG Life Response
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Thanks for your feedback. We agree that the people who join us here at CG Life truly are fantastic and are the core of the collaborative culture that has created a productive, yet casual atmosphere. Thanks too for raising some points for discussion. We hope that you raised these concerns with the team during your time here. We pride ourselves on our openness and transparency as those are also core elements of our culture. Every amount of feedback provides some direction. Since it appears you left more than a year ago, we have specifically invested in improved onboarding support and HR services, providing management and other professional training at every level, enhancing the leadership and structure of our account management department, building out a refined project management department to make everyone's lives easier day-to-day, and compensation analysis and adjustments to ensure that the agency remains competitive. While we are not perfect, we strive to get better every year and 2022 has been no different.

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