A Toxic, Fear-Driven Workplace That Destroys Morale and Mental Health - Anonymous employee MarketCast Employee Review

This is, without exaggeration, one of the most toxic workplaces I have encountered in my entire career. While there are talented professionals on the ground, HR and senior management are profoundly double-faced, manipulative, and morally bankrupt. I thought I had seen the worst of people already, but the level of hypocrisy, cruelty, and disregard for people at MarketCast is genuinely shocking. Layoffs are constant and treated as routine. Fear is the default state. People are overworked, visibly depressed, and perpetually anxious about losing their jobs. There is no sense of psychological safety, only survival mode. A bullying culture is openly tolerated and, at times, implicitly encouraged. I personally witnessed a colleague being fired after standing up for themselves. Management hid behind the legal technicality that employees with less than two years’ tenure can be dismissed without cause. While that may be lawful, the willingness to weaponise it speaks volumes about the kind of people running this company. Discrimination is widespread and blatant. Some employees are granted remote contracts without issue, while others are aggressively pressured and harassed to comply with a rigid “3 days in the office” policy. There is no consistency, no fairness, only favouritism. There is also a complete disregard for mental health. If you are struggling, you are on your own. Management offers zero meaningful support and, in many cases, actively makes situations worse. In my own experience, it was considered perfectly acceptable for my line manager to: hide behind my work, take credit while producing mediocre output, be offline for the vast majority of working hours, rely on me to quietly “fix” things so their incompetence wouldn’t be exposed. This behaviour was known, tolerated, and normalised. Benefits are mediocre at best, and many were recently removed or downgraded. Changing agreed conditions after people have accepted offers feels, at the very least, deeply unethical - and arguably a breach of trust if not contract. Finally, the instability at the top says everything: three CEOs in a single year. That level of leadership churn is not a coincidence, it’s a symptom of a company in serious decline. For the sake of your mental health, dignity, and long-term career, I implore you: think very carefully before accepting a role here. No job is worth this.