Beyond, Inc. reviews

2.6

23% would recommend to a friend

(1,182 total reviews)
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Marcus Lemonis

2% approve of CEO

17% positive business outlook

Beyond, Inc. has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,182 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Beyond, Inc. employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Mar 13, 2016
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Pros

Overstock looks great on paper -- and some, but not all, of the perks do work out. Developers and other tech professionals start with 15 days of paid time off per year, in addition to 8 holidays and one floating holiday. On some teams, working from home occasionally is a viable option.

Cons

Beware what you hear from recruiters and interviewers. Standard, or even conventional, ways to move from team to team do no exist. There is a site where you can ask the CEO questions, but it will politely correct you that he has "gone fishing" and will be too busy to answer any questions for months on end. New hires are assigned to teams often at the very last minute, meaning any indication from the interview is likely incorrect. Our technology and applications drain the life from developers. Every application is labeled legacy. Methods deprecated ten years ago will never be finally removed. No one advocates for the improvement of our systems or processes; thus, developers with even minimal amounts of pride in their work inevitably leave. Established technologies are dismissed in favor of quirky out-dated in house solutions. The organization lacks direction. One minute, we can't hire fast enough; the next, we're laying off dozens of employees. At company meetings, the software architects laugh at remarks from the CEO and president about the future of our technology. The leadership loves to view themselves as leaders of an innovative "tech company", but do not possess any technical expertise themselves, nor do they seek the advise of the trusted employees within the company. The bleak view from here will not relent anytime soon.

1.0
Mar 7, 2016

The worst place to work, ever!!!!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Technology stack is not too bad. Everything else stinks. Only reason I gave a 1 star rating is because there is no option to not select a star.

Cons

Too many to list here but oh let's see the president and ceo are a joke. Favoritism runs common. I am a professional with 20+ years of experience working for renowned companies and I truly believe I made the worst mistake of my life joining this company. It's more of a workshop where you are judged by the number of lines of code you write. Recruiters are liars and they will tell you lies to bring you on. Afterwards, they will deny that they ever told those lies. Get everything in writing including PTO/sick days when you join this company. Management is the worst I have ever seen. Diversity seems to be focused on a certain south asian country. Most unprofessional workplace I have ever worked at.

2.0
Mar 3, 2016

Dysfunctional

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some smart people left that can be learned from if you go out of your way to bother them. If you get in with the right people, your chances of success are greatly increased. It's all about politics and nepotism, so if you're moderately decent at that you'll be way ahead of anyone else. Depending on your team, there is also nothing to do, at all, ever, so if you like doing nothing you'll thrive with the rest of the people doing nothing. Except for the holidays when the executives bark bad decisions at everyone. Sometimes they pass out alcohol for no reason. Which is definitely a pro. Also Lagoon day and the other random parties they have are quite good.

Cons

The executives are clueless. Incompetence, laziness, entitlement, and cronyism are apparently requirements to become part of the senior management. There is no leadership. There is a handful of indolent, inbred fear mongers that exert their power with contradictory and incompetent decisions that are unchallenged due to the nature of the structure of the kleptocracy. The CEO will send us emails with photos of him surfing in Australia during Christmas time while we are working through the night to make sure we keep his party fund well-padded. The President and CEO make a mockery of company-wide meetings where they make sex jokes and talk about drugs in between their incoherent babble with slides of strategy road maps where "the words don't matter." The sex and drug stuff might actually not be a big deal and maybe even be cute or charming if not for the fact that the rest of what's going on is so ridiculous. Millions of dollars go to whatever new lawsuits decide to show up any given month that Overstock refuses to take out of court despite their leadership's anti-government obsession. Then they take the expenses directly out of the already meager 'bonuses.' Brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, best buddies, and booty calls all report to each other and get high profile positions despite the obvious lack of merit on every level from every member of the group being described. It is quite embarrassing and incestual, whether or not these folks realize they are being talked about and made fun of. But in reality it doesn't matter because they are in charge. Many people don't even know who they report to. Organization charts change before they finish being implemented. Some people even report to themselves in the system, and some teams don't report to anyone at all. It is utter madness. The CEO hires contractors and has several pet projects that that bleed out value from the company like a slashed artery. He's completely checked out, as are most of the tenured employees of the company.

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We appreciate your sentiment. We’ve made a lot of changes and know there’s still work to do as we align the organization and make improvements for employees. Many of those changes have come because people have voiced their concerns and ideas. We will continue to improve as we receive and implement ideas based on our colleagues’ feedback.
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