BDA reviews

2.8

36% would recommend to a friend

(431 total reviews)
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Jay Deutsch

37% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

BDA has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 431 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The BDA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.4 stars).

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431 reviews
1.0
Jun 3, 2014

Full of ideas, utter lack of execution, understaffed, horribly managed...

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Pros

BDA was a great place to build and gain experience. They tend to hire people who are thinkers rather than doers, so if you want to take initiative and can navigate the nepotistic and self absorbed politics of senior management, you can add quite a few lines to your resume.

Cons

Senior Management is utterly and completely navigating this company blind, they think that by re-shuffling the cards in the deck (employees), their outcome will improve. Unfortunately this comes at the expense of many people's jobs and lives. Over the course of my time at BDA, they had 5 "restructurings" in hopes of "right-sizing" their business. This translates to firing essential employees and placing larger workloads on less people. The rhetoric used during these dictated by senior management became sickening to the point all employees left over lost complete faith in job security or true intentions of senior management.

1.0
May 18, 2014

Sinking ship

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Pros

Not much these days. Decent pay?

Cons

HORRIBLE work-life balance. Inept upper management.

2.0
Feb 23, 2014

"work hard, play dumb"

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Pros

There are some good people on the front lines. So much potential at BDA.

Cons

Those good people are not listened to, respected or well compensated. Executive leadership is simply bad. They think people can be moved into any position at the company and do equally as well, regardless of skill, background or personal interests. They promote coordinators into development roles, only to fire them for not being developers. They promote core values, but do not hold anyone above director accountable to them. Voluntary company events become mandatory company events, due to executive level politics. Different opinions and new ideas are welcomed, but then punished or ignored when expressed. BDA offers no bonuses below director level. Directors aren't supposed to mention bonuses, but it creeps out because the directors complain about how small those bonuses are. insultingly low. Yet the owners insist they want BDA to be the best place you've ever worked–when even the worst place gave bonuses. "Work hard, play hard" is the company's internal motto, but "play hard" means drinking heavily. It should be "play dumb" because they act like they dont know their staff has been begging for end-of-year-bonuses for years. they dare not even mention it. 1% of salary is not even an option. instead they spend millions on lavish parties that don't pay anyone's electric bill. The overall tone at the company is one of defeated-spirit and frustration–caused by bad business decision after bad business decision.

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