Dubber Reviews

Instead of addressing the poor internal communication within the company, the founders gutted the marketing team and replaced the director with Stalin, the Great Terror. Driven by grandiose fantasies about his accomplishments, the new CMO goes above and beyond to demean his "inferiors". He is inconsiderate of his staff's situation and struggles and regularly uses negative words and profanity to put his staff down. This person is a name-dropper who manages to make the conversation about himself every single time and loses his cool if you do not give him attention. He never has his own opinion and just regurgitates information he sees on twitter at meetings and refuses to listen to new ideas. He is a human retweet who can't elaborate or explain his own ideas. He hates being questioned especially, when asked by someone who he feels is "beneath" him. This is not someone people should learn from. He looks down on people and embarrasses his staff in front of other teams. If you look at his work history, it's obvious he's jumping from one job to another for a reason. He mimics and copies everything he sees online - from Xero to Stripe. He needs to come up with new ideas that actually work and is customised for the company. Besides the lack of diversity and other issues within the company, marketing takes the cake. It's a gravity-well, made of blood, sweat and tears, that will drain every energy you have in your body. People are leaving to get their mental health in check even without a new job to go. Staff are willing to be unemployed during a pandemic rather than stay in a toxic environment.

Where do you start - there are too many to mention, especially now! With the second investigation into the accounts in less than 18 months, this company has to be doomed - it has to be. In my time the senior leadership (founders) reveled in first class flights, 5 star hotels and thought nothing of spending £500 on a bottle of wine in the most exclusive restaurants. They were spending as though all their Christmases came at once! Even took out a long lease on a very expensive London property that lies vacant some 18 months later.. Customers were staggered by the 'generosity' of the Dubber entertainment budgets... The SLT treated the teams with utter contempt. There was never any autonomy, no one was able to make any decision, sales guys had to fight for contracted commission payments - all the while it appears that the CEO may have been responsible for a missing $26m of shareholder funds. All the power rested with the CEO and COO. They took responsibility in the 'good' times - both need to do the same now - TAKE responsibility for your actions. They made 40% of the global workforce redundant 3 weeks after announcing a 3 year multi $m F1 sponsorship deal. This sums up the narcissistic characters at the top of the business. Do not touch this company with a very long stick - you will get burned!