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Young Innovations

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Awful Place!!! Run!!! Pay increase and promotions are available after you quit!!! - Anonymous employee Young Innovations Employee Review

1.0
Feb 27, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I can't think of any

Cons

The greed of private equity company owning YI is astronomical!!! Their strategy is to reduce head count and cut cost while keep acquisitions pedal to the metal. While this is good and works until certain level is reached, it does not work in a long run. Overall environment is hostile, caused by huge workload, underpayment, and aggressive unachievable goals. The turnover in finance and accounting is extreme. The company changed 8 controllers in last the 10 years and the 3 CFOs in last 5 years. It is highly unlikely all these people to be bad performers!!! The situations and sales, operations, and marketing is not much better. The rest of the team except few individuals usually quit or get fired within a year. There is a fear culture created by the management. No one is valuable and everyone can be replaced by cheaper resource. This fear-based culture irritates people and make them act in strange way. Almost everyone is unhappy in this organization. Benefits are cheap representing the company culture. 401K company match is a joke, it has much lower company match and match longer vesting period (this ensures that only few people get anything). Medical insurance is awful with much higher deductions compared to many companies. PTO is laughable unless you negotiate it. Bonus is only in your offer letter because you never get anything (make sure you negotiate higher salary including bonus and salary before you start). In the same time HR department runs the false narrative of their great benefits and pay package while they only care how to cut costs. Getting it all together. Overall management strategy is to create paper financial tiger and sell the company at higher EBITDA multiple and collect their exit bonuses. While this is achievable in a short term it leads to deteriorating organic growth and increase unprofitable M&A activity. If you run M&A activity, make sure that you have the talent to manage the business after it is acquired. With exit strategy in next 2-3 years management and PE firm do not care for long term success, morale, and culture. Consider opportunity in Young Innovations only if you are desperate for income.

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Cons

- Remote - Reliance on good internet to communicate - Had to leave after 3 months

1.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Competitive salary > you'll need it to offset the psychological toll. The role will also sharpen your ability to work without direction, documentation, or support, which is a skill set you didn't know you needed.

Cons

I have never encountered an organization more committed to its own dysfunction. Leadership rotates with alarming frequency. Multiple CEOs, constant director-level turnover, and an organizational memory that has been systematically eliminated. Forty-plus people gone across multiple teams, often without notice, transition planning, or basic continuity. Former employees would still appear in Teams chats after termination because offboarding, like most operational processes here, exists in theory only. Performance improvement plans are used as an exit mechanism, not a development tool. I had never encountered a PIP in my career before joining this organization. Within my time here, I personally knew seven people who received one. Myself included. HR provided no meaningful support at any stage of employment. There is no training infrastructure of any kind. You are expected to produce from day one with no ramp, no documentation, and no one available who can credibly explain the role or the systems. Vendor relationships are fragmented and competitive rather than coordinated. Interdepartmental responsibilities overlap without clear ownership, which means work falls through cracks or gets duplicated, and when something fails, accountability is impossible to assign because no one defined who was responsible in the first place. Leadership uses this ambiguity to their advantage. Leadership failures are not acknowledged, addressed, or even visible. Accountability flows in one direction: downward. Those at the top operate without consequence. Budget decisions are made somewhere outside of normal organizational visibility, with no transparency into how resources are allocated or why. Marketing operates day-to-day with no strategy beyond a few weeks out. KPIs and meaningful metrics are largely absent. Digital marketing data exists but leadership simply lacks the foundation to interpret or act on it. Presentations from leadership were, in my experience, nonexistent. Systems are broken, fragmented, and undocumented. Nothing is integrated correctly. Processes are invented on the spot and later presented as established procedure. Responsibilities are distributed without introduction, context, or support. You will inherit work that no one can explain and be held accountable for outcomes that were never defined. Remote culture failed at the most basic level. One-on-ones and team meetings were routinely canceled. In a fully remote environment, that is not a minor inconvenience, it is a structural failure that signals exactly how much leadership values its people.

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