Great company but avoid marketing - Anonymous employee Embark Veterinary Employee Review

3.0
1 Mar 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nearly every employee is smart, motivated by the mission, and excited by the challenge of working within a successful and rapidly scaling company. There's a rare combination of talent and low egos among most teams that makes it a pleasure to work with colleagues and enables a rapid pace of progress. New tech is incorporated often to support data-driven decision making, and there's generally an openness to discuss ideas. The company is growing quickly and beginning to truly transform its industry and it's exciting and rewarding to be a part of it.

Cons

Most of the positives listed above seem to be true everywhere except in marketing. The CMO seems politically motivated to make herself look good at the expense of her employees, and micromanages constantly to prevent team members (even lower level) from making their own decisions on even the smallest things. She continually changes expectations or requirements to keep people off balance, and no one has the ability to do anything without permission but are too afraid to ask. You're often blind sided by negative feedback or changes in responsibility that was never told to you directly. There is a fear culture that's been growing for a long time due to the CMO and many people are preparing to leave instead of continuing to wait for the management team to recognize a change needs to be made at the top.

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Embark Veterinary Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We take all feedback about our culture and leadership very seriously and would like to learn more about your perspective. Since you are a current team member, I would urge you to speak with someone on the HR team.

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1.0
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Cons

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