Toxic, aggressive, misogynist hell hole - Anonymous employee Wise Employee Review

1.0
Jan 16, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the actual people you work with are good Nice office snacks

Cons

The mission is nice in theory but it's never going to happen. The rates for customers keep on increasing and yet they continue to spend millions a year of flying everyone to the company mission days. That's a lot of customer money going for two staff parties a year. Focus is on businesses not regular customers and they're not even doing that well. Had to stop bringing businesses in as they couldn't support them! Lots of incredibly misogynist behaviour across the business especially in marketing and the people team from leadership. This is not a place to come as a woman a hope and have a pleasant working environment. Lots of incredibly aggressive behaviour from leadership and zero support from line managers to help with this. If you're high up in the company you're protected no matter your behaviour. Benefits are not competitive, especially if you don't have children/not planning on having children. They ramble on about the mobile wiser benefit but it's so hard to actual do and comes with so many caveats it's not really worth it.

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Wise Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re really sorry to hear this is your experience. We absolutely do not tolerate behaviour that makes our people feel excluded and unwelcome as it is against our code of conduct. If you don't feel comfortable voicing your concerns to your lead, we would really encourage you to speak confidentially with your local people advisor about this so they can investigate further. They are trained to deal with situations like this and can provide any support you may need.

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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. You raised a number of concerns and I hope you were able to discuss these before you left. If you’d be comfortable to share more details, we’d really appreciate it. Please drop us an email at employerbrand@wise.com.
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