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.
