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The only advantage is that the colleagues and supervisors are all very nice, and everyone is on the same side. Because the SEO guru needs cheap, disposable employees, the people hired are all newcomers (everyone is very young). However, to be honest, the supervisors do not have any actual authority; real power still lies with the SEO guru.
The SEO guru is skilled at building a social media presence and has many followers. They also love promoting the company extensively to create the impression that it is a happy workplace. In reality, they are extremely stingy with employees and delay paying performance bonuses (for each employee, the average half-year performance bonus of “a few thousand dollars” is also delayed and unpaid). In August 2020, bonuses for the second half of 2019 were originally scheduled to be paid, but they were ultimately not paid on schedule; the entire bonus was suppressed, and the promised salary increase also never materialized.
The SEO guru and their spouse were unwilling to hire an accountant because they did not want anyone to have direct access to the company’s accounts. Later on, there were countless occasions when they fell asleep and snored during meetings with the company and clients, or drained their phone battery while scrolling during meetings and had to borrow a charger from a client.
All I can say is that the company was in serious decline in 2020. I do not know when it will hit bottom, but the senior employees there were all preparing to leave. Although many clients signed contracts with the company because of the guru’s aura, frankly speaking, throughout 2020 the guru contributed very little to the company’s projects; it was all held together by the senior employees.
The SEO guru favors attractive women and likes to verbally tease them. Sometimes, after listening for a long time, it actually makes people uncomfortable, but no one dares to speak up.