Dumpster fire - Anonymous employee Monks Employee Review

You’ll be judged based on relationships, not work. Some hard workers stay without promotion for years, sometimes in a Junior role, while idiots get a raise and celebration twice a year if they are good friends with the management. Total and utter lack of communication. People learn about layoffs and financial issues from newspapers and press releases, but never from middle and upper management. Middle management act like gods above peasants. Toxic jokes are made. The joke is on them as they can’t do s**t themselves. People who sit here for 10+ years do the worst job but think they are the greatest and tell this to each other in their echo chamber. Tech-wise they can’t do s**t. Technology leads are illiterate, don’t know basic things and are stuck in the past. The tech production issues won’t be communicated to the clients until the very last minute. When s**t happens, the clients feel fooled and often they just stop working with Monks. The vision and strategy are claimed to exist and are heavily promoted, but in reality there’s nothing. Processes simply do not exist anywhere in the company. Environment is extra toxic and clique’y. If you criticize anything the management does, you are doomed. Most of the account people are yes men. Client’s expectations are not managed at all. Most work is heavily undersold and then the production teams need to make up for those f**k ups. Management will always be on the client’s side while leading their best people to burnouts. No one takes responsibility for anything. If there is a problem because of this, decisions won’t be made for months until the client’s or internal escalation and then the worst decision of all possible would be made. People are constantly burned out, mislead, left without guidance and either just enjoy this s**tshow or leave.