WORST company at which I've EVER worked in my 25+-year career - Director BENlabs Employee Review

1.0
10 Sept 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There were less than a handful of solid, genuine people with whom I worked over my tenure at BEN. I still keep in touch with them but haven't kept in touch with anyone else despite still having solid relationships with people from every other company with which I worked both now and in the past.

Cons

So many I can't get to them all. • Lack of proper leadership. Very young C-suite who weren't trained properly and more concerned about their own growth. • Cliques all around and at all levels. Especially within senior leadership. • HR was awful and very much only about leadership/towing the corporate line versus listening to and acting upon serious complaints about the company (including sexual harassment and bullying) • Lack of true growth opportunities. People got promoted because of friendships and smoking parties outside the company. • Open floor plan for some, offices for senior leadership. If you're going to have an open floor plan, you need to do it for everybody. Including your CEO. • BS platform. Full of bandaid after bandaid to cover the significant flaws and no real work done to make the reporting mechanism work accurately or properly. • Toxic culture and work/life balance. I could go on but it's not worth it. All I can say is this is the worst place at which I ever worked over my career (and I've worked among quite a bit of dysfunction throughout) and STAY AWAY

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BENlabs Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We are very sorry to hear about your negative experience at BEN. At BEN, we do pride ourselves on taking all complaints very seriously, particularly ones regarding harassment and bullying, and make it a point to investigate these matters fully. We sincerely value feedback from all current and past employees, and would really appreciate learning more about what specifically it was that was not positive during your time with BEN, and how we can improve. Please feel free to contact to HR to discuss anytime, and we wish you the best.

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