SmithBucklin Employee Reviews

The business model is to assign multiple clients to overworked jr staff, and to work them 60 hours a week for no overtime. The clients subject matter is boring and their volunteers are often crude, inappropriate, and abusive. No culture of support or development. High turnover, panic attacks, tears.

Learn a lot in spite of the abuse. 60 hour weeks with no paid overtime. Constant helicoptering and questioning of work. Ambush meetings with no notice at 3pm on a Friday. Behind closed door agreements between colleagues. No development infrastructure to speak of. No internal promotions whatsoever

Not true thought leaders. Good at event management. Systems, processes all outdated. Staff dont develop true skills. I was in awe how easily they hire and fire at all levels. Sad culture.

Green innovative fast-paced demanding fun

Sticking up for your teams. Do anything other than maintain status quo. Stop shilling the ESOP for your own benefit and start caring about your desperately tired and mentally unwell staff. HR is essentially a front. I was never supported or backed up in any conversation about work life balance.

Listening, caring, retiring. Leave the company and cash out your ESOPs. You are a hinderance to your teams and a blight on the mental health of your colleagues. You are poor leaders.

Everything including honesty, training, and integrity

Not taking advantage of the younger generation that works there. They work them hard and they don't know any better

ESOP is a pyramid scheme designed to benefit the executives who are majority shareholders. Their retirement is built on the backs of entry level talent. Annual raises are less than inflation + consumer price raises. You lose money working here.

Everyone knows how to get leadership off our backs so we can actually do our job.

Fun, dynamic, energetic, young and

The company structure and imbalance of work has created a culture of resentment. Without that being fixed, jr staff will never really respect their managers. Jr staff has a culture of shared suffering. A silent understanding.

“Coworkers” defined as anyone under “manager” all suffer together. We used to cry in the bathroom. Junior staff is under no obligation to do more for Smit

Fundamental business structure. Top-heavy employee owned creates an inherent culture of favoritism and inequality. There is not room for you to grow, either professionally or in terms of equity. Turnover below Manager level is comically high. Shocking.

Executives need to retire. HR needs to actually care about their people.

Leadership, leaders, honesty, innovation, and leaders

Everybody needs to relax. They are overworked and the company doesn't care.

It was positive and engaging. I had a good first impression with HR. I bought in, it sounded like a good time. Variety of work, a ton of skills, cool people - the works.

It’s a “warm body” interview. If you understand basic business operations at all, you get

Constant turnover caused by unethical hiring / promotion processes. Pervasive burnout and low morale caused by toxic work environment, culture of abuse and overwork.