Shameful - Anonymous employee Blavity Employee Review

1.0
27 Oct 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This is a good place to get your feet wet if you're fresh out of college or in your entry-level positions of your career. Just keep in mind that this isn't a good representation of a "real" company. Please see the cons for further info. There are some people who work here trying to keep morale up and they deserve better

Cons

Where do I begin: - going to be paid 30K less than the market average rate - Everyone under management is a contractor working part-time so it takes forever to get tasks done - not enough manpower for the goals to be reached (too cheap to staff properly) - Because the pay is so low the talent is very limited, many young unexperienced people work here thus making project deliverables slower, the work not very good, and a lot of hand holding - CEO has her favorites and they will hire brilliant creatives to just clip their wings, not trust or communicate with them and then gaslight them into saying they aren't doing a good job or aligned - many new initiatives are really experiments without the transparency of saying that to employees, i.e., they have no idea what they are doing and just winging it but will never admit that they are "trying" out something - huge conflict of interest relationships going on in upper management - the company is very small and yet the culture is still very secretive... people get laid off or leave all the time and there will be no announcement you'll just wake up one day and their slack will be deactivated - many useless untalented and unprofessional employees who are grandfathered in still work here and are not pleasant to work with - absolute shameful how they treat their Black employees in conflict being that this company was founded on the purpose to UPLIFT the Black community, and now many of the management hires have been non-POC/white people - frugal and very cheap, no real investment in individual growth for employees overall the energy is: "how do we get the best work for the cheapest price"

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5.0
29 Jan 2026
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Pros

Room for growth if you're good at your job Flexibility (Remote environment and understanding leaders) Room to try new things

Cons

Remote environment can be challenging for cross-functional comms

2.0
15 Jun 2026
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Pros

The health insurance wasn't a nightmare to navigate.

Cons

Blavity's micromanagement was absolutely suffocating. I literally could not send a client email without someone questioning my word choice or demanding to know why I included that person on the thread. Every single decision got routed through some approval chain and nobody would even explain why they said no, just "not approved" and silence. I started to feel like my manager was waiting for me to fail, like the hiring process was a mistake and now I had to prove myself every single day all over again. By my third month there I completely stopped suggesting anything because every idea got was the kind of slow trust erosion where you don't notice it happening until you realize you've already mentally checked out.

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