Pros
I learned a lot in this position, and I'm grateful for everything I learned. The work itself was fun and challenging and I adored my clientele. My teammates were the reason I stayed so long; they were the most brilliant people I have had the blessing to work with.
Cons
*Glassdoor/Dynata please stop removing my review. * My goal in writing this is and coming forward with my thoughts is to ultimately help my teammates enter into a more appropriately professional/healthy work environment and be transparent with people that are looking to work here. In the office, I never, in my professional career, encountered such bullying, harassment, favoritism and hazing (especially women on women). Management style is not appropriate for a company with Dynata's goals and is not conducive to safe work environment. Management has made derogatory remarks such as "Last one in gets fired!"during a team lunch when we first round layoffs were happening immediately after the merger with SSI and “we haven’t lost anyone important” after multiple people have left this team in a matter of months is disheartening and scary for team members to hear at work. Management conducts blatant hazing, stalking, and micromanaging. Everything from looking to trade a person to another team if they are no longer “needed” to monitoring social media at odd hours to “keep tabs” on an employee, and then use their social life against them at work. I would also like to note that not one manager followed me the entire time I was employed - they were actively looking at/for me. This was incredibly invasive and was used as ammo against me. Another example of hazing was in response to my request on information for unpaid time off due to a family matter. The incredulous part of this response was that management mandated that if I needed to work remote I would have to use vacation time to do so and that I was still required to work. Generally in emails requesting information and examples from management and leadership, my requests were denied, evaded, and I went 6 months without a 1:1 with the team lead. I believe to avoid confrontation. Because the atmosphere is so toxic at Dynata, when I got sick I was afraid to go to the doctor for fear that leadership would take action against me. I believe many people have felt the same. This led to more stress and increasingly related health issues. This fear only stopped when I had to take medical leave for organ failure. I cannot remember how many countless times I have had to hide behind doors and crouch down in cubicles when I went to visit my other co-workers on different teams management passed by. Employees on my team spend an unreasonable amount of time and energy concerned on management's perception of their simple every day activities instead of their overall accounts and business performance. I know that people have spoken to HR management, but there is a breach of confidentiality with HR, so be warned that if you discuss anything to HR, it is not in confidence. In conclusion, I believe my team leader at Dynata has established a fearful workplace environment that I believe is overall detrimental for the team and the company in the long run. A true leader would promote their employees, trust their employees, and be present around their employees. Unfortunately, I do not believe this is occuring and the environment it is creating is utterly toxic to Dynata.
