Many challenges… - Anonymous employee Heart Creative Employee Review

2.0
21 Oct 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Amazing coworkers, the best people I have ever worked with. Every department is full of extremely talented, hardworking, brilliant, and skillful people. This is why most people stay as long as they do... - Tons of experience. You learn fast but a lot of the learning is sink or swim. If you assert yourself and are your own advocate there can be a lot of opportunity to grow professionally and learn a lot.

Cons

Out of touch senior leadership, false promises and very low pay. This is the result for everything below. - False promises were constant regarding pay raises, the promise of new hires to support in added work, more time for trainings, more support on projects, promises to “say no” to work when employees felt overwhelmed, etc. - Raises did not happen- if they did it was the result of employees begging them to see their worth and the raise was consistently under the person's value. - There was no plan when onboarding new clients. It was understood internally when a new client was on boarded it only meant added work onto an already overflowing workload for all departments. - Senior leadership was not involved in day to day client communication resulting in an extreme disconnect between client expectations and senior leadership's expectations of projects. This disconnect would result in senior leadership micromanaging projects and removing vital information the client had specifically requested to be a part of the project. - Tons of confusion on quotes and what is to be done for what client. - New products were sold to clients that had not been sold before. This meant it was not on the person who sold the product to execute but the employee and team to figure out how to make it happen. Again, no communication or plan presented before selling these new products, you are not set up to succeed. - It is not a surprise to get a phone call saying someone was let go. This has created a culture of extreme anxiety and lack of trust with senior leadership. When someone is let go, there is zero transition plan and zero recognition of the person who was let go. That person's work will fall onto the shoulders of those also working on the account and will result in employees picking up the pieces, putting out fires and working completely outside of their job role. - Retention is quite horrible. This is because of poor pay, 0 professional development/career growth path, bad training (because people are so busy it is hard to train), etc. - Cannot keep an HR person. There were a lot of different versions of HR which meant changes in processes every 6 months that employees had to learn. This company prides itself on being “radically good”, having strong B-corp values, and an employee first mindset. Experiencing working here for quite some time, the company culture and expectations of employees could not be farther from what they promise.

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Heart Creative Response
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Thank you for submitting your feedback. We are sorry to hear your experience was less than satisfactory. We will take this feedback to heart and work to improve our business going forward.

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1.0
21 Oct 2021
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Pros

- The employees at Heart are hands down the best part about this place. I met some of the kindest, most compassionate people while working here. - There is an opportunity to learn a lot about marketing, and very quickly based on the insane workloads and assumption that you will hustle 24/7 to get the work done. - The leftovers from the test kitchen. - The culinary team here is truly top-notch; they are the foundation for why Heart is even able to exist amongst a million other digital marketing agencies.

Cons

- At best (giving them the benefit of the doubt), leadership is inexperienced, naïve, and disconnected. At worst, they are shady, manipulative, and money-hungry. - The performative projection of "wokeness" is especially egregious given how poorly they pay people. Their whole business model is based on paying people the lowest wages that they can get away with, while selling services as cheaply as possible to close the deal. It devalues and dehumanizes the people and the work. - The constant cycle of overpromising and under delivering is exhausting to both employees and clients; the cycle continues until either the employee or the client leaves... which, both happen often. - I do believe the company was started with sound intentions. However, with the right amount of inexperience, tone deafness, exploitation, and some shadiness sprinkled in, it is indeed a recipe for disaster.

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Heart Creative Response
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We appreciate your feedback and are sorry to hear the negative feelings shared. Our leadership team is taking a hard look at the company and is committed to making positive changes. We hope to create a working environment that our employees and clients are proud of. This is a work in progress and will continue to evaluate based on critiques shared.
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