Active Network reviews

Awful executive management. They started at Monster when it was relevant and by the time they left their strategy was being taken apart by LinkedIn and others. Don’t fall for the bagels/soda, they care nothing about people and institute a culture of fear/intimidation/bullying to maximize every ounce of worker output. Maybe this is the common culture of the west coast dot coms, but at least they contractually share with employees on the financial success of the company (not vague promises). The only big day coming at ACTIVE is for the execs. Work life balance is a joke. 50+/60+ hours; no notification of working late/weekends. No flexibility in schedule. No policy for how to handle working with China. If you want to hit your project goals, you will have to spend a lot of time outside normal working hours to maximize what you get from China. I thought working at ACTIVE would be support of my active lifestyle. Fact is plain and simple I was a better customer of ACTIVE’s registration products before working at active and I was again a better customer once I left. Vague promises from senior leadership that all the extra hours will either be financially compensated or get unofficial PTO are hollow. Don’t believe it. There is no product strategy at the senior management level, only an interest in what looks cool. While senior management wants to become a data driven company, they have neither the experience to define a strategy nor the tolerance to listen to those that do. They are quick to berate the individual contributor instead of looking at whether people are being set up for success. In my short time at active not only did I choose to voluntarily leave, but so many others did as well. Never seen anything like it.

The C suite runs this place like it runs a prison and by fear. 8 AM to 6 PM walkthroughs from the C suite to see who all was at work. God forbid if you work with China every Monday - Thursday from 7 to 10 PM you leave work before 5 PM to have some semblance of a life. Unless you had a manager that protected you, you were screwed. China will not adjust their hours to your morning because there's more of them and only a few of the North American individuals on the calls. In addition to that, China is its own little monster especially if you're on the product side. The work that gets put out by offshore isn't always quality but in this environment, quantity trumps quality even if that means you're going to be fixing the same stuff 6 months from now because a customer cried about it. If you're lucky enough to have an empathetic manager, you will probably be protected from the onslaught of C suite demands but there are at times where hands were tied and you get stuck with terrible situations. Work/life balance didn't exist for certain individuals except for individuals that were favored by management and/or by the C suite. If you're not a favorite, you're stuck with the short end of the stick. On that note of favoritism, there were many times where individuals who didn't pull their weight who would either go unnoticed or be praised for being mediocre. This made no rhyme or reason to me. The work that got missed would end up burdening other team members and nothing was ever done about the situation at hand. We're all adults here - he or she should be able to clean up their own mess instead of being babied. Also benefits aren't the best especially if you need decent health insurance. It's a high deductible plan (pretty damn high) for single. For family, it's an even higher deductible that made me cringe. As for matching, the amount they provide isn't even standard. I would have taken stock options but even then that's a stretch.