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
3.0
Aug 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Love my co-workers - Ability to speak our minds through surveys, weekly, quarterly, and annual - Easy job

Cons

- Leadership can be stuck in their ways and they do not implement change or are as receptive to change - Not enough places to go once you establish yourself, as there are not enough places for growth.

4.0
Jul 29, 2024

solid

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

cool people fun accounts and work

Cons

ceiling for growth in this business

1.0
Jul 25, 2024

Toxic Environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I was excited at first to work at BDA. I had heard of so many people that had been with the company for decades, giving the impression that the company values their employees. They talk about employees being "family" a lot (like a lot a lot).

Cons

This "family" is incredibly dysfunctional. Gaslighting, bullying, passive aggressive at the best of times. They put on an air of a fun, inclusive environment, but in reality it is limited to the sales arm of the company. If you aren't in sales, you are inconsequential to the ownership and executives. There is very little for upward mobility in this company, from my perspective. The management that has been with the company for uptown 25 years is so ingrained in how things have been done in the past that they are not open to modernizing the way things are done and are closed off to the ideas at all. They manage by "do what I say" and not by the time tested way of hiring experts in their area and letting them do what they are best at. Training opportunities are only available on your own time, so if you want to become better at your job, you have to do it on your personal time. The turnover rate at this company is so high. Week after week people are just disappearing into the void. The only people that stick around (or aren't fired) are the "yes men" and high earners in sales.

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