Strange company - Anonymous employee XL Event Lab Employee Review

1.0
15 Mar 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Close to the city centre.

Cons

Management from the top level is just an absolute joke. I still remember my showing up for my first day and not a soul being there to take me for my induction. I should have walked straight back out the office at that point. From owners CCing in the entire department for what should be a one to one chat staff with heads of departments to listening to delusional rants on the daily. I can safely say this is the strangest and most warped place I have ever worked in. "How can we get staff to give us better reviews on glassdoor?" That management had to ask that is embarrassing in its own. Icing on the cake is that they offer 1 week paternity. Check your contracts and get a HR team not solely based in the US completely out of touch with the UK.

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3.0
26 Aug 2023
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Pros

Team environment, traveling, paid hotels and airfare, company vehicles, set salary, growing company

Cons

Long hours, no hopes of full-time work, quick to fire so they are always very short staffed (typical turnover is 2-6 weeks), no work place security, poor management, and no set chain of command.

2.0
30 Apr 2024
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Pros

Jobs can be done by high schoolers, which explains the low pay Some in office snacks One person that works there is very nice

Cons

Micromanaged, there is a lot of "restructuring" which leads to relearning processes every few weeks and then inevitably doing something wrong, dodgy business practices, LOTS of unpaid vendors and threats to collections, at least one person got fired a month because they can't afford to pay them or the person makes a handful of mistakes, they don't reimburse anything a normal company would (travel), they are so stingy and can't be profitable, they will run their business into the ground No upward movement, no raises, no benefits, very toxic and degrading work environment The rules are different for each employee, some get to work from home, some don't, it depends on who they like and seniority

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