Experience Entirely Contingent on Manager - Frequent Employee Turnover for a Reason - Assistant Account Executive FINN Partners Employee Review

3.0
2 Jul 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

FINN is a solid place to learn and employees genuinely care about the success of their clients. Employees are given a solid amount of sick days and PTO days and are encouraged to use them. CEO stays in frequent contact with all staff, which was crucial and GREATLY appreciated throughout the pandemic.

Cons

Your experience and professional growth are entirely contingent on who your manager is - and there isn't a strong HR department to go to to anonymously express concerns or comments, making it difficult to make any changes. Mistakes are not tolerated, which fosters a tense, almost scary environment to work in. It's hard to do great work when you expect nothing but harsh, negative feedback on everything you do. Often times, previous mistakes are continuously brought up to staff as a way to gaslight them into thinking they aren't worthy of recognition or promotions. Feedback is also nearly always subjective. Managers will rip junior staff apart in feedback saying they screwed up an assignment entirely and all they changed was the wording of a few sentences. Junior staff are expected to be mind-readers. If you want something done a certain way, then ask. Don't give an assignment, and then verbally assault junior staff for not doing it the way you envisioned in your head. Many members of senior management work almost all hours of the day and expect junior level employees to do the same. There is also an intense culture of favoritism. Some employees are clearly the apple of senior management's eyes, and others are brushed aside, and this treatment is also reflected in promotions and other professional growth opportunities.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

Limited opportunities for growth (I was part of a team that had no promotions in 6+ years, despite the fact that all of them are amazing), DEI façade to "pretend" they're part of a progressive movement (I'm nonbinary, I said this in my application and interview process, and literally no one ever used my correct pronouns, especially my manager who I talked about this with several times), and there's a lot of chaos that folks simply accept as a fact of life rather than something to grow from and improve. There's simply no desire to collaborate for growth—literally one of the most dysfunctional places I've worked at.

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