My Experience - Social Media Assistant Red Ninja Employee Review

Despite not having much experience when I was first interviewed for the position at Red Ninja, they decided to take a chance on me and help me gain the knowledge and experience I would need to advance in my career path. Before I started I had been unemployed and my career prospects were very low, however I have now gained a broad wealth of skills I would not otherwise have had, as well as having become a lot more professional and mature in the process. Red Ninja have paid for me to obtain professional qualifications, which was a large expense that I was previously paying. They have also been very understanding of my mental health issues, which I have been very grateful for. I also received regular 1-1s and feedback to help me understand what my strengths and weaknesses were, and how to improve myself as a result of this.

Working for Red Ninja is not for everyone, from my own experiences there are times when it can get very difficult. The work can be very draining at times and there is a lot of pressure from the leadership to produce high quality work. This is not helped by the fact that management can be critical regarding the standard of your work and both your general and professional behaviour, and concerns raised by staff can feel as though they are falling on deaf ears. For me personally this type of working environment has led me to become stronger as a person as well as become highly competent in my abilities, but for many of my former colleagues this has had a far more negative impact on their state of well-being.

- The employees are ace - Fish tank - Hammok - I don’t work there any more & never have to interact with Lee Omar — the boss! — again

Oh wow where do I start?! - CEO is a sociopath who is very creative with the truth to say the least.. - “Barely legal accounting “ and financing -Spending customer money on debts & other projects -Not a good environment for women or anyone with a brain! - Fraudulent expense claims, ripping off big funding companys like Innovate - The boss has Zero and I mean zilch tech knowledge (pretty bad for a so-callled tech company) or project management or software development understanding. -Loads of designers and people to make stuff look nice but touch anything and it falls a part - Underresourced projects with impossible timescales - insane staff turnover - False promises to both customers and staff! - The company has a very bad reputation with customers (I was warned against working here even before I’d started!