Not a happy place to work - Tech Streetbees Employee Review

1.0
16 Mar 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Brand new equipment - high spec touch bar macbook pros, nice open office, fantastic, extremely talented colleagues. Awesome location too. The product has so much potential!

Cons

Expectations are completely unrealistic. You will be burned out, and there will be nothing you can do about it apart from leaving the company. It feels like the worst of both worlds startup and corporate: insane amounts of stuff to do, dealing with extremely top down hierarchy, micromanagement, and not a lot of sense of security or reward. Startups are lots of hard work: but there is no sense of progress, and a toxic culture around expectation that make hard work at Streetbees unbearable. There is a massive fear culture: and it's hard because you feel like you're not _allowed_ to make mistakes. A lot of startups are about making mistakes and becoming stronger and growing as a business and individuals. In this company mistakes make you fear about your job. Many people left (at one time, it was 1 or 2 per week) because of the pressure, or because of mistakes they made being a cause for their termination. It feels like nobody is happy to be working at Streetbees. It really dampens the morale.

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5.0
8 Oct 2022
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Pros

I spent 12 years in client services leading key accounts, and have been with Streetbees for the last 3 years. When I first moved from a traditional research company to Streetbees, the change in pace was striking. It's a privilege to get to work with the world's leading brands on key strategic matters. Expectations are high, but it's very rewarding to see the impact we have on the growth of these Fortune 100 companies every day.  The work I do at Streetbees is very different to my previous roles though. I never worked in a tech company before, and I had to learn to do strategic insights differently relying on a high-tech AI product. I love working very closely with the product and engineering teams, which is not something I've experienced before.

Cons

Pace of innovation is fast, therefore there are constantly new products you need to come up to speed with. If you are looking for more of a traditional strategy role, this is probably not the right place. Most of Streetbees team are technical people and you need to be comfortable working with technology in a fast-paced envirnment.

4.0
1 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Good teammates - Collaborative work

Cons

- Pay could be better

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