Want To Feel Completely Taken Advantage Of And Worthless? Then I Have The Perfect Place For You!
Pros
- A few mental health days - Kind people for the most part - Recognizable on resumes
Cons
- In 2020, they had major lay offs and cut everyone's salaries by 20% during the pandemic due to revenue instability yet had money to acquire W Magazine, hire new executives, and give $5K bonuses to all sellers - Now in 2021, execs claim that 2020 was our best year in revenue to date and the company was profitable, but did not pay back our 20% in salary cuts - Performative activism. Claims to have diversity and inclusivity in core values and uses it as a selling point to brand partners, however 99% of the company is white. Claims to be "for women, by women" yet CEO & Founder is a white man. - Constant pressure to drive greater revenue and take on more work without any hope of promotions or raises, and while deterring you from taking vacation - No way to grow or be promoted even after years of experience, huge contributions at BDG, and convos with managers - Employee Performance Reviews are low priority and constantly pushed back or don't even happen due to various excuses (HR is busy with the new acquisition, we are not offering raises/promotions, etc) - May finally give you a title bump but keep your salary raise hostage with empty promises of giving it to you at X date (Spoiler Alert: It won’t ever happen) - Even if you contribute to revenue for the company in pre-sale or post-sale, don't expect to see any commission or recognition for your work unless you're a seller - Non-competitive salary unless you’re a seller. There is a culture of sellers having vacation houses and working out on their Peletons together meanwhile you're barely making ends meet in your tiny apartment. - Non-existent job descriptions and responsibility differences that result in you doing the same if not more work than your better paid superiors - No work-life balance. Expect to work late hours! - In 2021, they decided not to give Summer Fridays to revenue-generating roles basically because we'll be growing the company this Summer and it'll be busy - HR regularly hosts workshops on "Adaptability & Resilience." Very telling that they recognize we're suffering and decide to organize a class on how to cope rather than trying to solve it by expanding headcount to ease workloads - Company is very cheap unless you're a seller taking out a client. Healthcare is still expensive, they don't make it easy to get your laptop fixed if broken, they didn't give us any kind of stipend to make our homes WFH friendly, they even skimped on holiday party budgets pre-pandemic
