Everything.
I'd like to disclose I am not a 'disgruntled employee' who was fired, I left on my own accord and want to post this just so nobody else makes the mistake I made of accepting a job here (and sticking with it for 2 years). All bad reviews are TRUE and all good ones were either falsely created by HR or are people in the field and not in the corporate office.
- No one is ever held accountable for their mistakes or anything for that matter
- Incompetent people are valued while the good ones are forced to pick up the slack because 'you can handle it' / When people don't do their work, it just gets dropped onto the lap of someone who is "capable"
- Pay is WAY under market value and often you don't get paid for the work you actually do
- Special treatment for certain employees (I.E. an employee was told she couldn't work from home when she was undergoing tests for a medical emergency, while another employee is allowed to work from home every Friday because she lives in HB)
- Everyone is threatened that people are going to take their job so there's no teamwork and all departments sit in silos
- No processes in place or brand guidelines, which makes it extremely hard to do your job well
- Bare minimum work ethic from almost all employees and the ones who don't have this mentality are often punished for making other people look bad
- No clarification on job duties. Often they will hire you and then completely change your job once you actually start working there.
- Managers pawning off their work and then taking the credit when the Unilever bosses show up
- Constant hand holding for "junior" people, instead of getting them the necessary training
- No bonus, no incentive for anyone below manager title. No yearly promotion, they don't even keep up with inflation.
- Organizational chart doesn't make sense (they even tend to have mistakes as they are presented to the entire company during the 800th restructure meeting of the year)
- Directors don't let their subordinates go to conferences to grow them in their skill sets, instead they take the opportunity when it arises and don't present any knowledge they obtained to the team
- Headcount is too large - way too many people at a director level with way too many subordinates, job can be done with half the amount of people
- Too many meetings that aren't effective / no widely communicated agenda and no recaps sent to greater team post meeting
- Untrained leadership (or leadership with out of date knowledge) speaking about things they don't know to the detriment of projects
- Lack of overall marketing direction and guidelines - should be a top priority for leadership so time isn't wasted following unwritten and uncommunicated rules
- Heavy dependence on vendors without knowledge on what they actually do
- Responsibilities aren't allocated to the correct people - subordinates are expected to create strategies when that should be a director level
- Unclear and contradictory direction from managers or no direction whatsoever
- Failure to define goals and stick to plans lead to misuse of time and internal resources
- Initiatives immediately just get dropped (ex. Eyes Up)
- Managers don't recognize contributions and reward good work or challenge employees intellectually, while also failing to develop employees skills
