Please read the negative reviews. Leadership has not changed and they have maintained a toxic work environment where employees do not feel respected or appreciated. This is such a toxic work environment they are having trouble hiring people. Instead of trying to create a positive work culture that will attract talented employees they "enlisted" current employees to write positive reviews to bury the negative ones. Here are some of the things that you will experience if you work here. I honestly didn't even want to write this because I know it will become more difficult to hire people and the work will fall on the individuals that are already overworked. 1.) Favortism: If you are liked by leadership, you simply will receive special treatment. You will be able to remotely work, you will receive more leniency, you won't get eviscerated for mistakes, you will have 1-on-1s, and you will be given assistance and direction. BUT if you are not one of the favorites, it is such a horrible work experience. Constant anxiety and constant fear. They will talk behind your back and speak poorly about you (seen this half a dozen times), they will gaslight you, they will be disrespectful, they will be unprofessional and the list goes on. 2.) Poor Work/Life Balance: The main client requires monthly planning which happens in the first two weeks of each month and it's “encouraged” not to take PTO during that time. Or you will be guilted that you are transferring your work to an already overworked employee. There is limited to zero flexibility. If you are supposed to be in the office that day, you simply can’t miss it. To reiterate this point. I have personally witnessed people have to change their flight at their own expense, being eviscerated for staying home with their child because they couldn’t find a sitter, missing a family vacation, etc. All this to be in office during an arbitrary 3.) No Respect. They have zero respect for their employees. People have been fired with no notice with no explanation. Leadership will gossip and talk bad behind your back while simultaneously smiling to your face. Will promise opportunities for growth, potential raises, and bonuses, if you are liked you will receive them. If you are not liked. You will be not given any of these things with zero communication/explanation. If you make a minor mistake, it will be on the next department touch base. If you are lucky it won’t be aggressively brought up during the all-hands weekly company meetings 4.) Micro-managing: If you are inactive on teams for more than 10 mins, they will ask you why you are not active. Monitor when you come out and when you leave. Monitor how long you stay for lunch. A recent change that the company made was to have work hours from 8:30 to 5:30 as people were staying a little longer than the 30 minutes that was allowed. They have to get a full 8 billable hours. Legitimately had 20+ meetings where this was reiterated. 5.) Fear: People are afraid, they are afraid to speak up. They are afraid that they will get fired, reprimanded, or even worse be a part of the non-favorite list and continue to work there. People don’t like it at Imaginuity and don’t think that have been taught the necessary tools to work at another company. 6.) Leadership Incompotence: Poor leadership is the core of all their problems. Simply out of touch with a healthy work culture. They will make you feel like the worst human ever if you make a mistake. You will be pushed to work long hours but act like it’s normal. Leadership has pressure from the client that puts pressure on managers that put even more pressure on people below them and it is a vicious cycle. Be prepared to feel like the whole world is on fire every day. Leadership will make excuses for a very toxic client and tell their employees “But I understand why they said that to you, because it’s their livelihood”. Trying to make you have the same Stockholm syndrome that they have. I have been in rooms where leadership is talking poorly about one of their employees for 20 straight minutes. I would be shocked if they last 5 more years. 7.) Horrible client: The worst client I have ever experienced. They will yell at you. Tell you that you don’t know what you are doing. They will try to fire you. They will take personal shots at you. Be extremely disrespectful and unprofessional. I have been in meetings where Imaginuity employees have been brought to tears by the client and leadership in that same room not intervening. This has happened to even people that leadership likes. However, they will always make excuses for this client no matter what they do. This seems like a lot of cons but I promise you once I post this. I will be kicking myself for not including more. What will leadership do with this review? Have 10 meetings about how this is not their culture, have 2 Friday mornings where C-suite unenthusiastic cook you breakfast, 1 more poorly themed and forced party (but make sure you are ahead of schedule before you attend which is a direct quote from a manager), comment on the grammatical errors and finally dismiss it entirely. Like I said. Please don’t work here. It’s a miserable experience.
