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1,0
17 mei 2024
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- Nice and friendly people - Remote - chance to unleash your creativity - good experience if you have zero experience in marketing or are pivoting into marketing - you'll get hands-on experience in multiple things very quickly: manually posting on all socials every day, writing ad copy, sourcing OOH agencies, negotiating contracts, sourcing videographers, and venues, catering, writing SEO blogs, interviewing couples etc. There's lots to do but it's pretty straightforward.

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* I acknowledge for some these might be cons but others won't have any issues and that's okay. But these are my personal cons This company hires full-time international employees as independent contractors providing no standard benefits or tax deductions. This allows them to save money and fire people whenever they please as these employees are not technically protected under labour laws. However, hiring people and making them work as regular full-time employees while treating them like independent contractors is employee misclassification which is illegal in North America and can result in multiple fines and penalties when reported. Proceed with this in mind. From my experience, their hiring process involved 5 interview stages and a 6-page long assignment basically asking the candidate to lay out an entire detailed marketing plan for the company. At the time I thought this was worth it. At the end of this gruelling process, they gave a lowball offer (way below the salary range advertised which initially reels in candidates). In my case, the salary range was CAD 65K-$85K but after all 5 rounds, I was offered CAD $45K since I didn't have enough commercial experience. I wish I was told this during the earlier stages. I didn't negotiate and was open to being hired as a junior because I thought that meant more training, mentorship and learning and development. But you'll basically do the same workload as everyone else. From what I’ve heard a lot of people get lowballed here even with sufficient experience so rmbr to negotiate. I highly recommend reading the full 80+ page employee handbook before signing on no matter how pushy they can be to get you to sign on quickly. Take a day or two to decide but I understand if this job was your only option. I witnessed a male US hire quit on the second day of onboarding and a female US hire quit after six months and the stories she’s shared are horrific. Negative experiences shared by current and previous employees continue to scare away new hires. At first, I thought they were disgruntled employees but after working there for a while I understood and believed them. But take everything with a grain of salt as always. At the time there were only two people on the North American marketing team, myself and one other girl. We were given very little to no onboarding training and expected to carry out all the marketing deliverables across the board from digital ads, social media, out-of-home, event planning etc. This is expected for start-up culture which I fully acknowledge but we were also told to plan a North American tour in one month spanning 6 cities with two 500 people events per city. You'll probably end up working overtime without pay, running events during weekends and working late nights on your laptops. Depends on how many people are on the teams at the time. If you're up for it then great. I was told that the company goal was to get fobs (this is a slur referring to immigrants and the exact word they used) off the app and get more liberal Muslims on the app. Constantly being asked to make my ad copy “spicier,” even though this type of messaging would receive a lot of backlash and didn’t resonate with their target audience. I felt like I was being asked to put out tone-deaf marketing material to increase virality but at what cost? Maybe you'll love this if you're into guerilla marketing but I highly value building a strong brand perception. Anyway, I finally decided to quit because to me the experience wasn’t worth the low salary, lack of job security and benefits, and poor company culture and management. I ultimately decided that it wasn’t going to benefit my career growth/goals. When I quit, I was told that they would make deductions from my wages to cover the expenses of an employee social trip that I was no longer attending since I quit (apparently this was a policy in the employee handbook but it’s still considered wage theft) I thought it would be slimey to go on the trip and wait for the monthly salary to come in before quitting. They didn’t pay me for 2 weeks worth of wages and 1 day of overtime. I was sent an email listing out items and costs such as hotels, resorts, and airplane tickets. They never provided any official invoices so that I could cross reference the refund policies and they could’ve also (probably did) had one of the new hires take my place on the trip. I asked them for invoices twice and finally after weeks I emailed them letting them know I would report them for wage theft and employee misclassification and they paid back half the wages they owed. The other half, they couldn't get refunded and sent me the invoices. oh well, it is what it is. Also just remember that stock options are a fantasy unless the company goes public…and you will lose them if you quit but its okay since they are fantasy stocks anyway.

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2y
We won't spent too long replying to a post which is riddled with false claims (we note you deleted your initial review, then made some tactical amendments and reposted it) except to repeat our reply in our first review: -Our non UK staff are hired via the Deel platform and all contract terms are discussed and confirmed with candidates before agreeing to work with Muzz. It is a basic requirement of anyone to read and understand any contract they sign when they do work for a company. -We have a long interview and assessment process to ensure the tasks in the process itself reflects the actual role requirements. We've had plenty of candidates and hires tell us they enjoyed the entire process and exercise. Some will drop out as they find the process to onerous - that is by design. -Your salary offer was made in light of you being a junior - despite your strange self assessment of you being a senior (and demanding a senior salary) despite having barely any tangible commercial marketing experience and being fresh out of college. -As outlined in the Employee Handbook to which you also agreed, we organise and pay in full for trips for our entire non UK team to fly to the UK, stay at a hotel at our expense with a view to helping them bond with the team and receive in person training at our head office as well as take part in a paid social holiday. This comes at great expense to the company. This is voluntary. -Our handbook states that only in the case of a genuine emergency will we cover the cost of non attendance once you have opted in. You informed us you were able to attend and so provisions were made and flights booked. You then told us you could not attend and changed your reason three times. You then informed us you wish to resign. We were actually gracious in managing to get parts of your trip refunded and reused, and hence sent you copies of invoices for your expenses incurred and also refunded you a portion which we had managed to reuse. We note you decided to intentionally omit this fact. -ALL working days were paid in full - we do not cheat employees in this manner - so again this is a lie to frame it that you were not paid for the days you worked. -Sadly some disgruntled ex employees will gossip and present one sided viewpoints - that's a fact of life as evidenced by much of this review. -Lastly we do not your LinkedIn Profile was highly misleading regarding your title and length of service at Muzz - which probably speaks to a lack of ethics on your part. -Sad you removed your comedy subject title for this review - the old one was probably the best copy you have come up with during your time here.

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5,0
9 mei 2025
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When I joined Muzz, I wasn’t confident in my skillset at all. Despite a thorough and diligent interview process, I was genuinely surprised to receive the offer. The work culture at Muzz is intense and fast-paced, and at first, I found it overwhelming. But looking back, that very intensity is what accelerated my growth. Learning on the job boosted my confidence in ways I couldn’t have imagined. I was given real ownership — trusted to manage my stakeholders independently, and my input was valued from day one. I could always approach the CEO, whether it was for a chat or a coffee walk, and that level of openness really stood out. The Head of Data and the entire senior leadership team were incredibly supportive — they actively encouraged us to put time in their calendars whenever we needed. I always felt safe asking “stupid” questions, and my ideas for solving problems weren’t just welcomed — they were implemented. I’m leaving Muzz with a heavy heart. The version of me walking out the door is worlds apart from the one who joined, and I have Muzz — and a great data science team — to thank for that. I wish the company nothing but continued success.

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As with many fast-moving startups, there’s room for more structure and processes. That’s not unusual in a stand-up culture, but it’s something that could evolve as the company grows. I’d also love to see more diversity within the engineering team. That said, both the CEO and CTO are genuinely open to having these conversations and care about making progress in this area. HR has also been outstanding — always approachable, proactive, and supportive when it comes to hearing and addressing any concerns.

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1y
Aww big thank you! We shall definitely miss you! And really appreciate the feedback too - lots for us to still work on but we will get there
3,0
18 feb 2026
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Good experience working with multicultural team the work is interesting working on diverse project with wide exposure and big budget

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high workload no consideration for the local culture when it comes to executing marketing plans the quality and standards of the marketing activities are overlooked for just achieving them managers are pressured by the high management, so they don't support the senior marketing specialists

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