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Depends if you love an entrepreneurial culture with zero work life balance and randomised firings?
Ha, answers my question, thank you!
If it’s any consolation (although sounds like you’ve made up your mind), it really depends on what account(s) you work on and who you work into.
Some BDs work all hours and want to be always on for clients, but others have managed to create a better balance for everyone on the team. (And to be honest, better work too.)
As for randomised firings - not sure I agree. I know a few people that were made redundant that weren’t expecting it, but they’d all had bad performance comments from creatives or others. It’s rarely random - they’ve usually just got a blind spot on judging themselves.
As for entrepreneurial culture - am I missing something? That’s a good thing isn’t it?
Rising Star
Not meaning to stir, simply letting you know there is a growing reputation, that’s the outsiders view. I’ll happily give your company the benefit of the doubt if you’re advising that all the people with ‘performance issues’ (your term) were forewarned of this and worked with their supervisors to draw up a measurable plan of actions to improve. That’s what I’d do with my AM’s. However in my experience of managing people, even when someone has serious ‘performance issues’ it’s very, very rare that you let them go. It’s on me to bring the best out of them. Anyway this seems to have occurred at Anomaly quite often. And then add that to the (larger) number of people we’ve seen who are job hunting out of choice who are generally unhappy, it points to either there’s a culture problem, a progression and empathy problem or a hiring problem if you keep hiring so many ‘performance’ duds.
There’s an exciting buzz around Anomaly and feedback from creatives is good. Elsewhere, there’s a consistent theme of people who’ve been looking to move on - of getting no support from lower management and no transparency from top management. That’s all. Something to be aware of.