CEO is Temperamental and Delusional - Marketing Specialist Gimbal Employee Review

1.0
9 Feb 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People are great. Some work flexibility and good health coverage. DTLA is a fun place to work.

Cons

CEO has no idea how to run a company. He hasn't worked in the corporate world his entire career life since he's been busy trying to be an entrepreneur. Therefore he can't relate to his employees. When things don't go his way, he is temperamental like a 6 year old child. Completely immature. And he's delusional thinking that he can be a big fish in the marketing industry when he's hardly ever around to run the company. His assistant is equally immature. She seems to get upset when the CEO has a new girlfriend and she's toxic to the whole company with all her gossiping. Lastly, I find it interesting that on June 9th there were three 5 star reviews and on June 6th one 5 star review. I'm pretty sure this is the CEO's sad attempt to raise his Glassdoor review.

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Gimbal Response
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Thank you for your feedback, but I'm going to take off the kid gloves here for reasons listed below. I'll handle your last point first. It is true that, from time to time, we ask active employees to leave honest feedback during their tenure to offset the negativity posted on this site by disgruntled former employees like yourself. We don't force employees to leave positive ratings, mostly because we can't. We don't give bonuses for giving the CEO 5-starts because that's illegal. The only thing "interesting" about the increase in positive ratings is that your monitoring this site on a daily basis. Second, it is below the line to attack other co-workers with illegitimate claims. It’s one thing to be critical of senior management, but spreading gossip publicly about a team member who has been with the company for 5+ years is disrespectful and untrue. Lastly, I will add that we haven’t had a Marketing Specialist at Gimbal since... ever. In my opinion, this completely invalidates the entirety of your review. It’s one thing to leave an anonymous review on a site like this; it’s another to lie about your role. And if you're lying about your role, what part of your review is factual? We'll let the readers decide.

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