Affinitiv reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(343 total reviews)
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Sharon Kitzman

94% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Affinitiv has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 343 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Affinitiv employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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343 reviews
1.0
Aug 7, 2020

Struggling to Stay Relevant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The people and teams here are where it's at. Wonderful coworkers and many good teams are really the reason to continue working here. - Management seems to finally be getting back on track.

Cons

- Insurance is a joke at the Clearwater location, and we now have to pay for insurance for the first time since the company's inception. Insurance rep informed us that Chicago employees pay more for insurance than us when I asked, and the Clearwater rates will be further bumped up within a year or two to match Chicago. It would be nice if management was transparent about this. Not only is this not fair to the Chicago folks but we were told the fee would be nominal for Clearwater (which is actually really subjective) and if it's going up anyway, why are you being misleading? - Terrible experience with our new insurance overall. Constant claim rejections and denied authorizations. My doctor's office has told me repeatedly that they are a nighmare to deal with. If your doctor tells you that you need a service, and the insurance says you don't, you get to pay out of pocket. Doesn't matter how urgent your procedure is or how much pain you're in. My recommendation to our employees: Please don't get sick. You'll be better off paying $800 a month to pay for your own personal insurance if you do. Can we please go back to something that is not garbage? - Our PTO plan lost the option for cashing out your time and instead of rolling over to the next year if there's PTO time left, we now have a use-it-or-lose-it policy (which is illegal in some states, you can look that up). Management then had the guts to inform the employees that this was for the good of the employees, to encourage them to take their vacation time. Yeah, okay. PTO is compensation, set a good example and start treating it as such. - At the first sign of the lockdown the company cut all 401K contributions through the rest of the year. - Also at the first sign of the lockdown the company cut everyone's pay (some employees still have their pay cut now, over 4 months later). - Along with the merger came the culture of no Christmas bonuses. None, zero. I don't know any other tech company that gives absolutely nothing in terms of a bonus. They haven't even tried to justify this one. They will immediately tell you that our culture is the most important thing though. - Our benefits overall are just weak. Stop comparing us to the US average. We are a TECH company, so compare us to TECH companies. Doing anything else is deceptive. How can you retain talent if people work here for a while, gain experience, and then realize they can just move on to somewhere else that will simply treat them better for doing the exact same thing? You can't. - Straight from our party planning committe I was also told that management has been fighting to get rid of our Christmas parties (said parties you can read about in many of our old positive Autoloop reviews). But it's okay, they care about the culture, right? Management, if you're reading this, prove me wrong, make the party happen. And yes I realize this might be awkward since you never did something this nice for your other sites. Make it happen for them too, they deserve it. Or invite people from the other sites to come to Clearwater, we would love to have them here. Let's build that culture you keep talking about. If you care, the options are there. Sadly there is plenty more, but I think this is enough to portray the trend of the company. It's not too late to turn this ship around, but we have yet to even step on the brakes.

1.0
Jan 30, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent benefits, great downtown location.

Cons

Rudderless ship with no strategy. They so poorly value their people that if you don't bail, you'll be let go eventually. They have lost most of thier major accounts, and have taken several smaller companies that were once successful and turned them into one large festering cesspool. I have never seen corporate culture so toxic in my life.

1.0
Apr 29, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Management is so busy you can do pretty much whatever you want

Cons

My experience at CK/ DyGen was sub par to say the least. I would rate my time there as being similar to how the guy in “The Human Centipede” felt.... not the one at the front, probably the dude at the end. I was hired into a position & quickly realized the terms agreed upon prior to getting hired were not going to be met. Specifically the structure of teams, account load, and pay. But I continued to be an A employee & grow an existing, plus new portfolios, while simultaneously playing managerial roles with that I was not being compensated for. Upper management openly devalues their employees on the phone with clients & backpedal in conversations that result in the company looking bad, and unnecessary credits. Frequent ethical dilemmas caused by internal issues that would be easily solved if profits weren’t going to Range Rover rentals, $100k+ daily driven vehicles, & unwarranted travel, but we’re here for a good time not a long time, right? HR is a literal joke. Her first reaction was to laugh out of uncomfortably when I discussed issues I was having with my health, and then she went on a tangent about her teenage son whom is having issues in school for a totally unrelated health issue (very confusing scenario). She then proceeded to get defensive, give dirty looks, and elevate her tone while I tried to quit & was explaining that I need to walk away from the company. I guess that is the result of someone who gets put in an HR position that has a cosmologist background. Take whatever help, and hire what who is the most convenient #amiright Words of advice; stop misleading your employees, understand the pulse of your company, actually pay the appropriate parties when accounts come in, don’t wait to make moves until your employees threaten to quit, hire a professional cleaner, and grow the balls to tell your employees to take care of their obvious hygienic issues. It’s so clear the building is way too small for the amount desks & employees crammed in there like some sort of 3rd world advertising factory. Literally employees on top of another, no natural lighting (unless you’re fortunate enough to sit near the windows that are constantly closed), & the florescent lighting is straight out of cell block c on the prisons. Total lack of investment into the comfort of employees & overall care for the space they provide people to work in. I would highly highly doubt anyone who is in ownership of the company would let their personal homes be 1/10th as gross as the office they force their employees to thrive in. Bonus points for expanding into the garage to support growth. Have to give credit where it’s due. If you want quality employees, provide quality work conditions. Cell phone reception sucks, and there’s a lack of phones & rooms to take calls on. You had an employee managing over $500k a month on a computer that can’t load 3 programs simultaneously. A capable SS hard drive is $300. Thats literally skipping out on one those necessary Range Rover rentals one time to make an employee more efficient while they copy and paste their way through life. Budget constrained, asleep at the wheel, or genuinely don’t care about the employees? Not sure which it is, but it’s all bad. Company perks, pubic hair on urinals, dirty water, & over priced vending machine items. Beer on Friday’s is cool, but proper internet connection is cooler. Just because you can wear jorts & flip flops doesn’t mean a company has culture. Weight loss challenges, the stench of 10 year old carpet & Halloween skits are what you can look forward to for company culture.

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