Reviews voor Bynder

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1. For more senior employees (e.g. >5 yrs working experience) there's limited inspiration from internal role models

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- Developers are forgotten

- They focus more on different departments like Marketing for instance, when they should invest A LOT MORE in Developers and Product Designers. (not brand designers)

- Difficult to improve yourself, you're stuck on the same squad forever.

- When you talk to HR about something, an idea or whatever, it gets lost in the air.

- You work on a great new product, and out of nowhere, it gets cancelled. And you get to keep working on Legacy, how fun.

- Salary is lower than average. No Bonuses.

- Agile Coaches. haha.

- Lots of developers leaving, wonder why.

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there are no cons so far

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Everyone in senior management is more concerned with being likeable than doing their job. Budgets and attention get dedicated disproportionately to marketing/PR/events and the Amsterdam office. In roles where no real qualifications or experience is required, like marketing, they hire based on youth and good looks and nothing else. A lot of things we spend money on, like the Onbrand event and Remote week, is for them and nobody else. CEO needs to grow up and reward the people who actually MAKE the product and keep the business affairs in order, not just hire new marketeers who seem like they just graduated from high school where they were in the popular clique.

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- Bullying in the office. Even if you report it bullies face no consequences b/c they are friends with the CEO.
- Politics is a big part of the company culture.
- People that provide honest feedback and are a voice of reason in the company are not listened to.
- Everything changes frequently and change is not communicated. I get this is an agile company, but agile does not mean changing strategy twice a day.
- Cooperation is not fostered - each team wants to shine by running their own initiatives rather than working towards a common goal.

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Employee turnover is sick. We've lost 30% plus. It's even worse that the good people leave
For those who are left, I feel that people are more focussed on "having a good time" at work rather than actually doing their job and this is frustrating for someone who takes work seriously
Bynder does NOT evaluate its employees based on performance
If you are a friend to the CEO you can show-up when you want without the need to do any work. These people (± 15 folks) kill and impact the culture and morale. They are toxic. Complaints can be raised and no action will be taken. Even sexual harassment isn't being taken seriously
If you work here for more then 6 months you know you don't need to take any company change or new direction seriously. It will be reverted quickly without communication
The people who DO care and provide honest feedback to the management team will be ignored and bullied away or fired.
I've read reviews on Glassdoor and unfortunately the negative ones are true. Around the beginning of April the CEO was really angry about the reviews on Glassdoor and I've heard rumours that the management team needed to write positive reviews. I've been asked by someone from management to do the same.
Don't window dress to pretent you are cool and you are doing stuff to make this a better place. Bynder owns to solve this stuff to its employees
The response from the CEO on glassdoor to negative glassdoor posts is a joke since nothing of this is new. We've all shared that in the surveys and meetings. I know some of my friends who left shared this in their last interviews with HR but apparently nobody cares since nothing has ever been done.
The reason why I post it on Glassdoor now is that I hate to be asked to post something positive while we need to take action and it is time to take action before the last good people at Bynder are being impacted and leave or that the Webdam team sees what they got themselves into.
We've lost several dozen of people over the last months due to our company culture
Since no action is taken to the complaints raised internally, nobody in the company will take the management team serious anymore.
They've hired external consultants in Amsterdam to see how we can rebuild the culture but again these are the friends from the CEO so there is NO trust and they party party party with everything you need to use during a good party. There isn't any trust amongst my peers and we joke about the consultants and the parties that involve a lot of things that Amsterdam has to offer.
Don't try to make people happy with stupid and fake promises that you will get promoted or that you can earn Bynder coins. That's been voided and now we get fake options from the company
It's a shame that such a nice and potentially cool company is going down and no action is been taken

The CEO only cares about his external visibility. Brags in a financial magazine "quote " and on television. Pretending that Bynder is a unicorn and a billion dollar company. The company is rotten. All executives are gone.. They've fired finance, sales, HR, legal... nobody is left...
The only good person left is the old CEO from the company we acquired. Let him run the show and many people will stay

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The company is global and sometimes struggles to communicate across time zones. It's not an easy thing to do and although its not a huge problem here, its definitely something we need to work on.

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I can't think of anything

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Bynder is under a period of rapid growth which comes with a lot of change. Some people aren't made for that.

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Because we are growing so quickly, things change quite rapidly. This means that the structure also is in a transition phase, but I'm willing to deal with the ambiguity if it means that we can have a stronger foundation moving forward.