You'll regret taking a job here - Anonymous employee Achieve Employee Review

1.0
23 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance Profitable company Free monthly lunch

Cons

Stay away from the San Mateo office, especially the Marketing team. The CMO creates a hostile work environment, including but not limited to: yelling at people behind closed doors; making unwarranted insults; acting arrogant, unreasonable, and hypocritical; setting double standards; very political...list goes on. Problem is that no one speaks up because she's the top boss. Founders are too disconnected from the turmoil on the ground. Otherwise, they'd already have replaced the CMO and certain other hires she made, which would solve a lot of problems and make many people happy. Company lets incompetency stay, especially for VPs and above. If you're a senior leader who's lacking, the company will let you hire your way into a solution to cover up your incompetence. TIP: For anyone considering a role here, go onto LinkedIn and message the people who recently worked at Freedom to get a real sense of what it's like.

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Achieve Response
7y
Thank you for the feedback and we are disappointed we did not have more of an opportunity to work with you to address your concerns. You can be assured we will work with the limited feedback you provided to make Freedom a great place to work. We believe in our culture of caring for clients and our team mates, operating with the highest level of integrity and working to get better every day. Your feedback will help us in our quest to be one of the 'best places to work', an honor our employees have bestowed on us many times. We learn everyday how we can improve and we value the insight our employees provide, especially from those who directly support our clients. I would appreciate an opportunity to connect if you would like to provide more feedback. You can reach me, Linda Luman, at lluman@freedomfinancialnetwork.com or (602) 427-9535. Thank you!

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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We value all feedback, and we’ll carefully review the areas you mentioned as we work to always GET BETTER by improving the experience for all employees.
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