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
Aug 23, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people at BDA are really the part that keeps people there. While many are unhappy and stressed out (if not most) they are warm, welcoming and love to have fun. Career growth is FAST, which can be a double edged sword. The parties are fun; lots of free booze. Also a double edged sword.

Cons

Lack of vision from management. They come up with goals that are bigger each year but provide no guidance for how to get there. No regular training, no coaching. They focus on what people are doing wrong. Leadership is not client obsessed like they say they are. In fact, the main focus is the bottom line. They have a hard time seeing the big picture as it relates to client relationships. They are stuck on one project at a time and don't see the value of sometimes taking a margin hit in order to maintain a healthy and growing relationship with a client. As mentioned earlier, people are promoted very quickly here. The downside to this is that teams are broken up all the time. This leads to a very poor and problematic customer service issue. The clients have to deal with a new team on a regular basis; things get missed in regular transitions, clients become unhappy. The goal SHOULD be to create happy customers that want to come back and trust us. Additionally, employees are under paid, over worked, unhealthy, stressed out and generally disgruntled. Morale is LOW because no one feels appreciated. Many feel like they are not respected, are taken advantage of and just completely burned out.

1.0
May 16, 2016

Sales Coordinator

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Team Environment, good friends, office is full of energetic people

Cons

Pay is well below average which is why so many people leave.

1.0
Feb 25, 2016

Was Not the Right Fit

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are some great people with amazing work ethics.

Cons

Very paternalistic approach to management. I always felt I was being talked down to as if I was a little kid and dad knew best. They have an entrance where you are forced to walk by the executive managment's expensive cars while they pay under the industry norm. It was belittling being lectured in all company meetings by the same management that were responsible for putting the company in such dire straights. They will take as much time from as you allow them to since workload is often very unrealistic. They expect you to sacrifice like others do. If that is what you find rewarding, it is a good fit. For me, it felt slightly abusive.

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