Beyond, Inc. reviews

Upper management seems to have taken a real dive lately. Some of their decisions leave lower-level employees scratching their heads. The most recent example is the “O.co” rebranding. A majority of customers, after seeing a commercial about the new O.co name, tried to go to “o.com” instead of “o.co”. Any person at my level could have told management this would happen, if they had bothered to ask. Lack of confidence in executives has led to a general feeling of instability, culminating in the laying off of about 50 people, most in IT, just last week. The Provo development office was also closed after being open only about a year, and people who were hired expecting to work most of the time out of Provo are now stuck with a long commute. Financial results have been disappointing the last few quarters. As part of the financial rebalancing that happened at the beginning of the year, most of the employee perks were cut: parking shuttle, holiday party, and conference budget. Work areas are pretty crowded, and many people don’t have cubicles. Life is not very good for some development leads. Instead of being a technical leadership position, dev leads really end up spending most of their time managing people, coordinating projects, and going to meetings. For those that would like to stay technical and still spend time every day writing code, this is frustrating.

Terrible management (some bright spots, but most leaders don't know anything about the departments they are trying to manage) Textbook bad business practices - reorganizations constantly. You might be in a different job in 6 months that you don't want. Always a new emphasis on what is "important" - every few months it changes They can't figure out how to make money. This is a problem eventually!! No communication from above, if you are a mind-reader that would help you. Promotions, lay offs, etc are all very political, not based on merit. Obsession with competing with Amazon instead of coming up with their own ideas and strategies. Some of the executives don't work nearly as hard as the people they manage, which is demoralizing. There is a lot of fear - nobody wants to make a decision.