Beyond, Inc. reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(1,180 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 1,180 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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2.0
Jun 5, 2012
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Pros

- Culture - Close Involvement to Major E-commerce Projects - Resume Builder - Work Close with Executives - Location This review a few years ago would have been much different. It WAS a very positive place to work, but that was long ago.

Cons

- Senior Management - Dejected Workforce - Recent Braindrain - Wishy Washy Decision Making on Projects Causing Incredible Expense and Dissatisfaction by Those Working Hard Only To See No Fruit From Their Labor - Lack of Direction The decisions around company direction and project focus are very scattered. No two executives could tell you similarly what the direction of the company is. Projects are reactionary to what other sites already do, not innovative by any means. An amazing amount of resources and money are put into projects that are not thought through, resulting in complete stoppage of a project only to move on to something similarly thought through. Prices and quality of merchandise are poor, which is what the company should be working to improve, instead of looking to do everything it can as fast as it can. Instead of focusing on core values and a standard business model, anything and everything are brought to the table and pushed. The number of people with deep Overstock knowledge combined with industry experience and intelligence leaving Overstock is kind of staggering. I want to say it is due to firings (which have occurred often since mid 2011) but the truth is most are leaving on their own because they see a sinking ship. Confidence among workers is at an all time low. Per their own stated results, the only reason O.co made a profit in Q1 2012 is because overhead/workforce was diminished so severely. Unless significant change to senior management occurs, I fear this company is not going to survive or will become a shell of its former self. This is an opinion I've heard directly from internal employees including from multiple at the VP level. The board needs to require a change in action instead of letting the chairman and other SVPs run rampant.

1.0
Aug 30, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Folks here are friendly. Folks try very hard to get their jobs done despite a strong culture of micromanagement.

Cons

Nepotism Poor compensation Short-sighted planning ans strategy Middle management does not last long unless they act as "yes men" to their executives Poor ability to identify and follow best practices The CEO has a dog he brings into the office and he lets it wander around and sniff people. Extreme levels of dishonesty from the CEO and his direct reports.

1.0
Dec 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Health benefits are OK It is a great place if you are a ski bum or if you like hiking the state of Utah, or simply because you have a higher reason not to leave the state of Utah. If you are good at selling ideas that sound good in meetings and love to have meetings from 8am to 6pm, this is the place for you. If you are crafty enough to arrange your work schedule around meetings, you can actually move from one meeting to another for a whole week, without actually performing any real job as long as you talk your way around the great projects or ideas that should be implemented and take down any new initiatives or real work done by others. Align yourself with the VP of Merch/marketing and you are done and don't ever go against any of the buyers.

Cons

Toxic work environment, you can actually spent days without talking to anyone. No vision of the future at the leadership level. Every day there is a Fire drill kind of environment, where the only thing you do is take out fires (problems) and being careful not to be blamed for the causes of the problem. Patrick Byrne made a great idea a reality, sadly most of his time, ideas and money are spent in fighting everybody else with lawsuits (wallstreet, hedge funds, gary weiss,banks etc) and talking about naked short selling, which is in fact a problem, but not the cause of Overstock's stock price decline. So the company is headless in terms of direction and lacks vision of the future. Retention rate of employees is very low, the average time a person stays at Overstock is close to 1 year. There is no open communication channel from lower to upper management levels, last initiative was to set up a web interface to allow employees to voice their ideas, but the qualification process of the ideas is in the hands of the same people that truncate the communication to the decision person (Patrick Byrne). Great place if you love to spend your time in Facebook and Youtube, just make sure you have one of those 3M screen protectors, so no one can see from the side what you are doing. No retention strategy for talented employees.

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