Integrity, commitment, respect - Anonymous employee Calcium Employee Review

1.0
15 Nov 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Center city office Some nice people to work with

Cons

Calcium does not live up to its “core values”. They lack integrity, paying to win awards for HR while abandoning employees who experience burnout. They do not show respect for their employees, expecting 60 hour work weeks, pushing high performers to burn out by forcing them to work nights and weekends and if you say you aren’t available, you are told you’re not a team player and ostracized. Lastly they do not embody commitment to their employees, they don’t reinvest in their culture, they don’t foster juniors well, often leaving large gaps in roles so they never get the mentorship they need, and SVP level roles are stuck doing studio work and too busy doing projects themselves and working late to ever give juniors proper feedback. Once someone tries to get better working conditions or set boundaries they are let go or pushed out. There is no “nourishment”, only sucking people dry and tossing them out. Calciums true culture is exploiting workers.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
7 Feb 2025
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Pros

Employees, overall, are welcoming and there to help adapt to the culture. Always some type of team activity to stimulate employee engagement. There’s camaraderie—it’s a small beating heart, but it exists. Decent salary with perks. Potential to grow if you have a clear career path. The agency is involved in enough associations to build sustainable network.

Cons

While there are a few good folks, leadership as a whole is more concerned with titles and maintaining authority than actual change and company growth. Horrible use of talent—the favorites are overused and the specialists are underutilized, hidden in the shadows of the “superstars.” A very top heavy org with not enough junior associates to balance out workloads. Speak up about any inconsistencies and experience retaliation so subtle you’d think it was a figment of your imagination. While smaller agencies have their benefits, it does create a vacuum where everyone is cycling redundant ideas and thoughts cosplaying as innovation and progress. A lot of groupthink exists with very limited variety of perspectives. Gotta know how to play the game, because the fall from grace is brutal.

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