Pros
*Gain experience in an industry with high demand and little labor supply. *Most of the people were friendly and a pleasure to work with. *Allowed 3 weeks of flex-time vacation at start and $300 allowance for any recreational "healthy lifestyle" activities.
Cons
When first interviewing with BEW Global, it is a warm welcome and friendly office environment. The dress code is casual and there seems to be that type of tech start-up environment that is encouraging. In the interview process they stress that everyone has a chance to contribute to the company and make changes at the highest level. However, the attitude changes once you begin working there. Here are some of the things potential new employees need to know about BEW Global: -Average industry starting salary is $60k-$80k. Average BEW Global starting salary is $35k-$45k. They post salary ranges 10k-20k above what they offer in their job postings, and then once the interview process is complete they blindside you with a lowball offer. -Terrible benefits. There is no 401k, and supposedly there is a profit sharing program, but everyone I asked had never received any benefits from it. -Besides the founders, most everyone who works there is young (average age is mid-20s). Normally that would represent energy and the bright future of a company, but these young employees are getting hired on and immediately put into manager roles with absolutely zero managerial experience (on top of little to no work experience). Some of them are arrogant, and it is visibly clear of the power struggle between these young managers. There is clearly a lack of professionalism in this work environment. One would even go as far as to say offensive at times. -Part of the reason for this power struggle is that these first wave of college hires were promised equity and influence in the company by the founders (*based on performance). In return for this promise, the company uses and abuses these young college hire employees. To date, no one has received equity in the company. It is not written in any of the contracts, yet these young managers continually try to *outperform and compete with each other. But rather competing to promote the mutual benefit of the company, it has turned into a selfish showboat attitude. This has made for a very stressful work environment and these young managers are delusional in thinking they are going to become rich because of this. -Despite the internal stress, the actual external stress of the work is high. BEW Global likes to think they are a consulting and business intelligence company, but really that is a grand illusion. It is a break/fix company. The technology breaks, and then BEW Global tries to fix it. Even though that may be a realistic assessment of most tech service companies, BEW Global takes it to a whole new level with incompetence. There is absolutely no training for new hires. -The founders and managers preach that everyone should be innovative and strive for improvement of the company's practices and services.I have witnessed multiple times employees bring up innovative solutions to improve the company's services and actually prevent the company from losing money. The company ignores it's own internal business intelligence. -There is absolutely no direction or leadership of this company. Unfortunately the founders and the 25 year old managers just aren't getting the job done. And this leads to chaos and complaint with the clients. Not to mention the founders have already ran the company into the ground once and had to fire almost 90% of its employees. -For being an information security company, BEW Global is sometimes ignorant of information security best practices.