I’ll start. Hootsuite. I have kept quiet for a long time about my very negative experience working for Hootsuite but having recently seen someone else go very public about her own experiences of discrimination and then after having been let go finding her face used on their website to promote diversity AS WELL AS seeing the company’s recent jump on the bandwagon efforts to pretend they’re supportive of women, families, minorities, diversity for International Women’s Day (when they also ripped off an artist’s illustration without her prior permission), I’m speaking up. At least here, for now. Working there was the most negative experience of my working career. It was a toxic, misogynistic, sexist, racist, hom*phobic bro-culture. It comes from the top and they’re trying to promote a different culture now that does not exist in there. They have a secret party room / bar in the basement car park in their HQ, they still promote a toxic masculinity / party, drinking culture and anyone that’s professional and that doesn’t row in gets excluded and won’t get any promotion / career path. The stories of discrimination are starting to come out now that more and more employees are being ‘quietly exited’, and leaving. I suffered sexual discrimination and was made feel uncomfortable on numerous occasions. The sexual assault stories will start to come out soon. #metoo Search #cancelHootsuite on instagram for more
That’s fucked up!
I found the employees and environment at Hootsuite to be great. I checked the hashtag #cancelhootsuite and it looks like just one prior employee who was let go is posting rather aggressively.
Do you happen to be a straight white (or possibly Asian) man maybe? If not, I’d guess that you either liked the bro culture / were successful in that there or were one of the ‘sheep’ in the ‘cult’ - words the CEO uses to describe his employees. Complaceny puts people like that on the wrong side of history. Yes, one previous employee is speaking out publicly on instagram, others more anonymously on Glassdoor and others with their lawyers.
I will add that there were / are many good people there.. but the overall culture is sick. Leadership, HR, the good ones can’t turn around a sick place.
When you’re the only one trending a hashtag attempting to deface a company that has a pretty good track record and community behind what they do, you can’t get angry when someone asks questions. I don’t mean to devalue your opinion, I’m attempting to understand and share my own. I understand you feel crossed because they let you go, but corporate bullshit like that happens everywhere. Even if you’re struggling with depression, the suits behind the numbers don’t care. They look out for what’s best for revenue. And that’s true in any competitive business environment.
No, corporate BS like this does not happen everywhere. We need a welcoming workplace where everyone is allowed to be a little comfortable even if they don't associate with the majority culture. If a person has been violated to the point that he/she is ranting so much later, then you can only imagine what they went through. That kind of bullying needs to stop.
You are assuming that the one doing the ranting isn't the bully.
Ok, I am not the person you named. And I think that’s against the point of Blind? Perhaps check yourself before being banned here by trying to ‘out’ / name someone. Please read my post properly. I left the company of my own accord. I suffered in different ways to what you’re assuming (again, read the post properly). I have kept very quiet and amn’t affiliated with the person you named - I have never spoken to her. Also, I didn’t get angry. I asked some questions back (which unlike me you conveniently chose to ignore). Yes, the corporate world can be a jungle and tough out there but please stop discrediting my and many others particularly bad experiences T this particular company. Perhaps you fully vested your shares or you’re friends with some of the OG’s or you are one, so naturally you have a conflict of interest. So try look at things from other’s perspectives. Good luck to you in your career and glad to see you got out to go to a good company (I believe).
Ban for asking if someone is someone? Hahah wtf
You reminded me - anyone that wants a look into the truth at this place. Just search ‘100 eat d*ck’ and Hootsuite - how the CEO acts/thinks and this was his response to a reporter publicly on social media. Yes, the irony of promoting his company and himself as thought leaders. The truth comes out in the end. Ultimately karma will tell if the company fails, which if you search other posts here many are saying they are, running out of money, haven’t IPO’d and can’t get acquired and so on. A few of those toxic individuals are already millionaires so they’ll be laughing to the back / wont care about the hundred of people out of jobs in Vancouver but there are other ways other than money that things catch up with people. Look at Weinstein
In case anyone is interested, here is an article about the incident referenced. You may wish to draw your own conclusions. http://fortune.com/2017/03/02/hootsuite-ceo-sex-hotline/
That's actually pretty funny. You have to have a really thin skin to get offended by that.
Autodesk is pretty terrible. The women are talking about how they’re mistreated and underpaid. It’s a company full of middle age white and Asian men so it’s to be expected.
I had 1 interview there and they never called me again. Maybe it was for the best (I’m a woman).
Yikes I think I'm in a toxic environment. What do I do, help! Matters worse, I'm too anxious to act. :(
Regardless of Hootsuite culture in the past or even today, why is the international women's day event "fake"? The people putting it together are volunteers from teams across the entire org, coming together to make the company a better place. "The company’s recent jump on the bandwagon efforts to pretend they’re supportive of women, families, minorities, diversity for International Women’s Day." - the only way to make change is by jumping on the bandwagon. Maybe the company is sick, but a company is just people. I've noticed a genuine effort to improve the culture lately. Culture changes might not stick at first, but change isn't easy.
Like I said above there are good - some good - people there. And if you’re one of them, power to you. Until that is, you burn out and suffer the same discrimination of all those that came before you there. You can’t slap lipstick on a pig. Also look up what jump on the bandwagon means - it’s a negative connotation, denotes opportunistic attitudes, and usually is all talk / public showmanship with no real sincerity or proper action behind it. Likely, they’ve lost so much good talent they have had to try turn around their reputation. Too little, too late. I know it’s hard (I struggled myself in there too trying to right things) but please try be objective, you’re a puppet to them if you think they value you and your diversity, don’t be complacent.
Fuck humanity, power to angels...
OP, your obvious attempts to weaponize race and gender are shockingly regressive and bigoted. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Calling out discrimination on the basis of race and gender is not “weaponizing” race and gender. Educate yourself. You just look like you have poor critical thinking skills, suck at data structures and algorithms etc. when you post something like this.
Get serious. Read this person's posts about "white and Asian men." That's simple bigotry, any way you want to spin it.
More power to the likes of you who stand up to injustice.
> I have kept quiet for a long time about my very negative experience How is that standing up to anything?
So since someone waited to stand up you’re going to discredit them for doing so? Wtf?