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Growth Tribe Academy

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This company is going places - at all costs - Anonymous employee Growth Tribe Academy Employee Review

1.0
12 Sept 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Outside of the office environment, 90% of the employees Ive interacted with are genuinely nice and intelligent people.

Cons

They say to work here, you have to enjoy a fast-paced environment and embrace rapid change. What they mean is “we’re going to change our business priorities every quarter, making it impossible for you to align your job title and responsibilities with current company requirements", so you’re going to fall short even if you’re good at your job. Tbh, being good at your job isn’t even important to them. It’s all about “culture fit”, which means blindly sacrificing your entire life for the good of “The Tribe”. They like to make you feel like nothing you do is ever good enough. People have said to me that they feel like they have to give 120% just to keep their job, let alone to get promoted. This seems to be part of a general plan to jusitfy low wages (especially, but not limited to the training department). Employees are really judged on for wanting a reasonable work/life balance, and are expected to spent significant chunks of time outside of work hours working or upskilling, even at weekends. Sure they say they promote a healthy work-life balance but that’s 100% not true. Management don’t seem to have any desire to manage or skill at managing people, with the exception of the sales department, which seems healthy. There is little to no empathy among managers and a general distrust of HR.

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Growth Tribe Academy Response
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Thank you for sharing. We are happy you've had great interactions with your colleagues outside of work and it's unfortunate you've felt so much stress and pressure within the company. This is something I have made sure HR and upper management is aware of, especailly the fact that you do not feel you have a good work/life balance. This is something we really take seriously. In regards to your other feedback, we are in a time of huge growth and, as a scale-up, priorities do change. This is why the founders give updates every other month so you are aware of the direction we are going. In addition, we have been working very hard to create an organizational structure to make job responsibilities and growth paths more straight forward. While there is not much positive in your message, we hope that you learned valuable things here at Growth Tribe and took that to your next role. We appreciate your time working here!

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3.0
13 Nov 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I loved my team. You'll work with smart, driven, interesting people every day. Things actually get done, you get to be in the driver's seat of your projects and there aren't layers of bureaucracy holding you back. The brand also has a decent foothold at least in the local market so that makes life easier. The team activities are fun, the office is great. Compensation can be good but you need to negotiate HARD to make it happen.

Cons

Upper management are not great. There's a lot of politicking and favouritism and a general mistrust of HR (especially the top HR leadership, the bottom layer are very lovely.) No pension plan, no (visible/accessible) ondernemingsraad as required by law in the absence of a cao in the Netherlands. I hope this has changed since I left. Management generally seemed to lack basic empathy at times, turnover was high during my time there and there was a lot of 'managing people out.' People in our team were fired in ways that were uncaring at best and cruel at worst. Strategy changes often, so when they say fast paced environment, they mean it. Make sure you can handle the rug being pulled out from under you pretty frequently. Certain members of management team simply not competent, which erodes trust in those people individually, the judgement of the people giving them power, and company strategy in general. This kind of feedback is difficult to give internally, because the problem is in the upper layers, who obviously protect themselves and one-another. Overall I can't recommend, which is sad, because I loved this job when I first started.

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