Smithbucklin reviews

The managers are terrible and lack experience and leadership. The culture promotes offloading work that you don't want to do onto those who haven't been at the company as long. The work is boring, and people aren't afraid to throw you under the bus in order to get ahead. They play favorites instead of promoting based on good work and leadership. Everyone is complacent and not willing to improve, instead they brush things under the rug and continue the cycle or mediocre work.

Units are extremely siloed, to a fault; business units and service units sometimes clash on priorities, and each unit will compete for personal gain regardless of client needs. Managers receive no training, so having an effective manager willing to bat for you is a gamble. Moving up in the company is based on a rigid set of requirements and seniority, and the process is tedious, all for minimally higher pay. Not much growth potential for lower level employees, not unless you want to stay at least a decade. Depending on which team you're on or which manager you have, your work may be unappreciated and you'll likely have no work-life balance as you continue moving up the ladder. Event Services basically starts with zero work-life balance.