Teads reviews

The culture is one of the worst I have ever experienced in my career. When we were still going into the office, you would feel the toxic energy created by upper management regardless of the department you worked in. If sales was stressed, it would permeate throughout the office affecting everyone's work and attitude. Days would go by where hardly anyone spoke and everyone had their head down at their desk. Career growth is virtually non-existent, unless you're a favorite of management, but even then the titles are arbitrary and I have not seen a single document outlining career pathing. If you work in a non-sales role, you're treated as though you work for sales rather than as a part of a collective team. I have also seen and heard of employees in support roles be thrown under the bus for sales' mistakes, but they can do no wrong in management's eyes, especially the favorites. The company lacks diversity and is very much a boys club. In the wake of the events surrounding Black Lives Matter, it seems like Teads is willing to participate in any sort of performative activism, except hire a diverse set of employees. As stated in other reviews, it is huge conflict of interest that the head of HR is the CEO's sister. Things were only made worse when we went into work from home due to COVID-19. I thought these feelings would change, but morale has only gone down further. This was exacerbated when we were told our jobs were safe and not to worry about how the declining economy could impact our careers only to find out a few weeks later, several furloughs occurred across the US offices seemingly out of the blue. Those who were furloughed have barely been given any direction or been told what management's plan is to bring them back, if at all. Many of them have since been laid off and those who still remain furloughed are still without any communication almost five months later. Navigating COVID-19 is new to everyone, but the lack of communication is simply unacceptable.

1. Teads cultivates the most toxic culture I have ever worked in and it comes strictly from the top down. It is an extreme high school environment with cliques and the favoritism runs rampant. If you are in leadership’s good graces / deemed a favorite, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. You don’t have to be good at your job, hit goals or do anything that any other hardworking employee is held to. However, if you don’t fall into that group, you could work your hardest, do everything in your power to succeed and it wouldn’t matter. The message delivered is that you’re never doing enough OR (this may be worse) your hard work isn’t even noticed. 2. There is absolutely zero trust in the employees they hire. The amount of micromanagement that happens is astounding to me. I actually read an article about how horrible micromanaging is for a company because it “sucks the life out of employees, fosters anxiety and creates a high stress work environment.” And I thought to myself, “Wow that sounds just like Teads.” Bottom line: don’t hire people you don’t trust but, in this case, I don’t think they would trust anyone they hire. This is a management issue, not an employee issue. 3. There is no concern for employees’ health. Teads come first no matter what – all they care about is the bottom line. People were getting sick and feeling pressure to come into the office (pre-COVID) and never once was a message of “your health comes first” relayed to anyone. 4. It is appalling how COVID communication has been handled thus far. Several people were furloughed seemingly out of nowhere after multiple company meetings about how well Teads was doing amidst the pandemic and they were left for weeks on end with virtually no information from leadership. Then, a good portion of the furloughed group were laid off. Now the rest of the people who are furloughed still have no information on when they will be brought back and are left to sit on their hands while they wait at home. I know someone who was furloughed at a different company and they received updates from leadership every other week, like clockwork. I understand that COVID is an uncharted territory for all companies but at some point, Teads leadership needs to use common sense if you actually value your employees. 5. We all know that race and diversity in the workplace have come into the spotlight this year. Many companies were making the breakout of ethnicity within leadership roles, overall employees, etc. public and Teads wouldn’t do so because there is hardly any diversity within the company. I also have witnessed racial microaggressions within the office - including but not limited to: Celebrating Black History Month with a fried chicken lunch. TL;DR – If you care about your mental and physical health, diversity in the workplace and maintaining confidence in your work abilities, do not work here.