Crisp Video Group Reviews

It's overstated, but the leadership is straight up toxic. Gaslighting, guilting, and manipulating employees left and right. They don't trust their own employees to work from home. They handled COVID horribly - masks were never even enforced in the office until an entire team tested positive. The CEO goes on inappropriate rampages about culture and makes you feel worthless. The COO is running the company to the ground. Unbelievably low salary with a poor incentive structure that does not make up for it, even for top performers. Little to no room for upward mobility. You will be expected to work hours beyond a 9-5 and there is zero OT pay, even though I think some roles could have a case for being misclassified as exempt from OT. The positive reviews are suspicious as every single person I have ever talked to at the company also hated it, but was not in a position they could afford to quit, but they were actively looking for a new job and applying to other companies. Take a look at the About Us page, most are under 30. This is because this job is impossible for you to have a family life/home life. This job caused tension between me and my significant other. This job pushed my mental health beyond the limits. There are so many mind games they play to get you to stay. I would have left as soon as I started but I needed the income. If there is one thing this company taught me, it's to take your time finding your new career change and be sure to do thorough research on what you're about to sign up for. Don't walk away, RUN AWAY as fast as you can.

The head of the company, Michael, is a big visionary who likes to preach working hard and doing whatever it takes to hit goals. And the employees who work at Crisp all want to achieve this -- they are all hardworking, dedicated, and truly care about making a difference. The problem boils down to the underlying toxicity in the office. For one, compensation varies greatly between different roles and employees are dissuaded from discussing it with one another (which is illegal). The base salaries are incredibly low and because there is no overtime, you can spend 60-70 hours easily working and if you don't hit a goal, you still won't get anything. If a team isn't hitting their goal, the CEO will give an incredibly passive-aggressive speech about how people aren't trying hard enough. However, I never once saw the CEO look inward to improve his leadership skills. He would occasionally get feedback but rarely did anything about it. Instead, he would say that the employee wasn't a "cultural fit" and would leave it at that. The other issue is that Crisp targets younger employees because they don't know better. This results in the employees getting under-compensated and taken advantage of. In addition, employees are constantly told that Crisp is the best opportunity they'll ever get in an attempt to scare them off from looking for better work. When in reality, every person I know who has left Crisp has been way better off because of it. One final note on Glassdoor. Some of the positive reviews you see on Glassdoor are true. However, many of them are not genuine. This is because leadership will pick a group of 2-3 people at a time to write a review and will give them a deadline of a week. They encourage "honest feedback," however, as an employee it is not anonymous because they know exactly who is writing them. As a result, employees feel pressured to write reviews that are more positive than they might necessarily be.