- If you apply, HR takes WEEKS to get back to you. Same if you actually interview and are waiting for a response.
- Low pay (at least 10k less than the industry standard for your role)
- Overworked with no overtime. Expect to work 10+ hour days during Q3 and Q4 while your co-workers run away early.
- Incentives are an ever-moving-goal-post. If you're not on a giant account like Sports Leagues or Teams, forget it! In 2015, the bonus goal was literally CUT IN HALF. Not to mention, your bonus gets divided by how many account managers you have. You have no say in who you support either; some people have 1 account manager, meanwhile you may have 4 to support. If one of those account managers don't make their goal, goodbye to a chunk of your meager bonus.
- They have no respect for your time. Expect every meeting to begin 20 minutes late and go 40 minutes long. Meanwhile, you're expected to be on time, every time and to still do your day job.
- Pointless meeting everywhere. You can easily spend the majority of your day in meetings about nothing. Their feeble attempt at "training" is 3 hours long, with maybe a 15 minute break, when all you do is draw pictures with markers and answer questions like you're in kindergarten. Reminder: your email is blowing up with orders and questions that need to be addressed asap.
- Account managers are a joke. Anyone worth their salt jumps ship. There's absolutely NO training for Account Managers. If you're good a making promises you personally don't have to deal with, it's the job for you. Their support team does ALL the work - from client communication to running the orders. Why are these people getting paid hand over fist again?
- WASTED MONEY EVERYWHERE. Instead of giving your proper bonuses, basic office supplies like staples and tape or even a WORKING CHAIR (literally hasn't been replaced since 1997), they go on company trips (for owners and managers only), and drown in free-flowing alcohol (it's an alcoholic's dream). There is never an event that doesn't have beer and unfortunately majority of the company can't hold their liquor, INCLUDING THE OWNER. Many fights have broken out at company events because everyone is just A-OK at getting completely hammered while still on the clock.
- AMP. It's a company meeting twice a year where you stand around that listen to the management stroke their own egos for 3 days straight. You'll work for 7AM to at least 8PM for those three days AND you're still expected to do your day job. And here's the kicker, you're NOT allowed to doing any work throughout the day (no email checking or order entering allowed). You have your lunch time or your bathroom break time to check any work that may be coming in. It's beyond exhausting.
- Company has no self respect. The type of conversations that go on around that place would floor you. Any other respectable place would have you carted out the door. The CEO made a child molestation joke about an employee in front of the entire company (I wish I was joking), I've had to listen to VP's joke about Prince Alberts, and since majority of the company are raunchy, desperate women get ready for any kind of sex talk you can think of. HR does absolutely nothing because they're more worried about being everyone's friend than actually doing their job.
- Employee theft is real. No matter how nice you see people decorating their cube, do NOT bring anything that has personal value. It will be taken from your desk.
- Career growth is non-existent unless you're great at brown-nosing. Turn over rate is appalling but 1000% justifiable.
- Yearly reviews are on a ridiculous 1 to 8 (yes, not 1 - 10) scale.
- Everyone is all talk and no action. They tell you to give them good ideas to improve the company. Do it and it'll never been seen or heard about again. A lot of people start out ready hungry but it soon fades away because no manager will actually DO something about it.
- They're more likely to fire someone who actually works but will keep around people that is absolutely horrible at their jobs. It's very highschool cliquish.
- Get ready to be bullied and thrown under the bus by CO-WORKERS. Keep ALL your private business to YOURSELF unless you want the whole company to know. The rumor mill is so large that it's a company wide ongoing joke. So much for BDA Team and Family.
- If you leave, you can't work for a competitor OR any of their clients. Do you know how many client's this company has? It may sound appealing but if you work here and leave, you wouldn't even be able to work as a Barista at Starbucks. Read carefully at the paper work you sign upon hiring and get copies!
