CBT Nuggets reviews

This company looks amazing from the outside. It has good benefits, a lavish building, catering, standing desks, and more toys than one can imagine. It's trying its hardest to emulate the San Francisco start-up vibe in Eugene. Its company tenets are great, and posted on nearly every wall in the building. Unfortunately, the company tenets are not actually upheld. Though one is to be "direct and honest" in communication, issues within the company are swept under the rug or hushed. This creates a culture where the primary source of actual knowledge is through gossip, and trust of management is essentially non-existent. Those who dare voice their concerns or attempt to improve the company risk their job. The company values "failing fast" but doesn't seem to appreciate that without taking time to learn from failure, the same mistakes will be made over and over. For someone looking for an internship or post-college job, I hesitate to recommend this company for the sole reason that you will be developing very bad habits. Many of the younger employees thrived because they were rewarded for non-empathetically throwing their teammates under the bus. That type of environment will create behavioral patterns and perspectives that can make you a terrible person to work with in the future. For someone hoping to join an established company and work their way into management - it's going to be hard. If you're a gambler that likes to play psychological games, you will do well. If you're a straight shooter who likes to get things done and be rewarded for making the tough, but right choices, you'll probably want to pass on this.

Most of the cons for CBT center on the clown CEO Dan Charbonneau and his buddy the COO, Ryan Lee. As mentioned in other reviews the CEO shows up occasionally and is entirely disruptive in the most negative possible way. He thinks he is the only one in any room that has a brain; unfortunately, quite the opposite is true. Despite the incredible incompetence of the CEO, the absolute worst part of CBT is the COO, Ryan Lee. He is one of those guys that thinks that a public display of enthusiasm equals excellent leadership. Unfortunately, Lee is not only the most passive-aggressive, inauthentic individual you'll ever work for; he also has none of the qualities of an effective leader or a manager. Additional cons at this company include constant firings without warning. If you work at CBT you'll need to get used to emails that say "Today is -------'s last day at CBT. If you have any questions please see me". Then all of the fired person's colleagues will be left trying to understand what the hell happened, how to avoid the same fate and how to make up for the work the fired person was doing. Seriously, during my time here I've received dozens of these emails. Pay at CBT is another serious con. They think since they pay for your benefits that they can pay far, far below market value for their employees. Come work for us, we're really great, you can have an icky cafeteria lunch and 35% below market wages! They apparently need the salary employees should make to build golf simulators and fund the CEO and COO's golf outings, actually come to think of it I'd give up more of my salary if these two incompetents went on more trips away from the office! The vacation policy is fine but if you use all your vacation time the COO will view that as a negative. Sexism in the open is for sure a con. I personally heard the CEO say about a current employee, "She's not much of a [job function] but she has great [female body parts]". It really is a mystery why Main Street Capital who owns a significant piece of the company lets this opportunity get squandered by incompetent, bizarre management.