For a company that touts themselves as “a software company”, at least internally, Businessolver's management seems to have 0 respect for the entire IT staff. The HR department is also grossly incompetent. The company as a whole has high turnover due to wage lock. They're more concerned about the appearance of comforts and technological advancement rather than rewarding their employees with raises and bonuses.
A few specific examples:
- Most IT staff members are underpaid, even while the company grows 30% per year.
- 10 vacation days a year for new hires. (If you do end up working there, negotiate on this. At least they'll budge on it.)
- The company seems proud of how much they're hiring at all positions, but seem completely indifferent to the high turnover rates across the board. The turnover is based on a myriad of factors; stress from Annual Enrollment, low pay, junk benefits, and more.
- Inflexibility with raises. Team members getting promoted to leadership roles, but being told they can't discuss a raise until they get to their hiring anniversary quarter. For some, that's 9 months they'd be working without the additional compensation.
- A recent quote at an all-IT meeting: "Don't worry about your job title, worry about the [work] experience." To many of us, this came off as "stop asking for raises".
- The company spends money frivolously for appearance's sake. A new security door that cost $60,000, but is slow, buggy, and people don't like using it. 6 figures on metal siding and signs that are designed to rust; the building looks even more like a prison than ever before. A massive cafe, an in-house chef/catering company, a ping pong table, and a (very expensive yet lopsided) shuffleboard table; all things that are nice to have, but would be more appreciated as increased salary to the staff.
- For a company that provides HR software, their own internal HR department seems to be completely apathetic to everything outside of hiring new employees.
- Around January/February 2017, Businessolver had received a slew of bad feedback here on Glassdoor. Instead of actually addressing these things beyond the "please email me with your concerns" notices they post here, they strongly encouraged all staff to come here and write positive reviews, in order to give them a more positive rating.
This is just a small list of things that I was able to witness in my time with the company. There are numerous other things that are more personal and detailed, and the context behind them would bore everyone.
Take a job with Businessolver as a stepping stone to a new position down the road. The only negotiation power you'll ever have here is a job offer from another company, but make sure you are prepared to take that offer before using it as leverage. The entire business model of Businessolver revolves around turning over lower level talent in order to afford the appearance of being a lavish organization.
