The Lower The Stars - The More True The Review
Pros
The team there is hard-working and mostly everyone gets along marvelously. The co-workers were by far the greatest part of the job. There are some lessons to be learned as with any experience - my new job seemed like such a breeze because "at least this isn't Coalition!"
Cons
If you want to get the real answers and the honest opinions - search reviews low to high when dealing with this company. SO MANY of the positive reviews are fake and paid for by the CEO himself (this is a service the company actually provides called "reputation management"). I can tell you honestly that every single negative review is a true statement to the nature of Coalition Technologies, and not much has changed over the years spanning the reviews. Joel Gross is a smart and very talented salesman, but when it comes to understanding people and managing them - there is so much room for improvement. It was in this job that I finally learned the true meaning of micro-management. No one is trusted to do their work - you are required to record every minute of every day in a program, team leads are to give you feedback on how you spent your time, then you are to give feedback on your feedback to show that you have read it. This is just one of the many time-wasting ideas the CEO came up with to track every single move you make while at work. He would take the happiest and most encouraging team member on a walk to have a chat with them about how their moral isn't high enough. He would give speeches about how you "should just act happy, even if you aren't because then maybe you will convince yourself that you are happy." If you ever disagreed with him or spoke up about something you think should be changed (especially any of his ideas) he would accuse you of not backing him up and not being loyal to the company. You are pushed into jobs you do not want to do - with everyone being so intensely overworked (while also having to keep a detailed record of your work + take quizzes on every single weekly meeting) - people who were hired as office assistants end up being accountants. If you were 5 minutes late (even though you stayed an hour later after work the night before) you would be emailed or passive aggressively G-chatted. He actually asked people to take attendance for him when he was on vacation. There is no respect for the employees, there is no appreciation for the work they do, and there are no morals. Almost all remote employees worked over 40 hours every week with no thanks, it was simply expected. Everything and everybody is undervalued by the CEO. His biggest concern is money and he thinks if you're talking to a coworker for 5 minutes in the kitchen, you're trying to cheat him. Almost every single lunch was spent complaining and venting to your coworkers because every single one of us felt it. It was draining and miserable getting up to go to this toxic environment of a job. When you find out one of your coworkers is quitting, you're happy for them because at least they got out. Honestly, SEO is a dying breed anyways, you're better off working for McDonalds (they'll last longer).
