Horrible Place with High Turnover Rate - Anonymous employee Active Network Employee Review

The cons grossly outweighs the pros. The most mentally abusive work environment I have ever worked in. To start, the pay is $5-10K below industry standards. The responsibilities for each role is usually at least one level above your title and pay range. The expectation is that you’re there from 8am to 6pm, and it’s frowned upon to be absent from your seat (even if it’s for your legally required lunch or a meeting - yes management will frown upon “whole teams being gone”). I was on one of those teams that was all about appearances, thanks to management. It was normal to work 10 hours a day in the office plus 1-3 hours at home if you worked with China, and receive passive aggressive "reminder" emails to the team about when work hours are (god forbid you leave at 5:15 when you’ve been there longer than your manager who doesn’t do any actual work). But it’s all in the name of “dedication”. There is no such thing as a work life balance here, unless you had a manager/director to protect you, or you were one of the favored few. I witnessed a handful of lazy, favored employees with big egos and subpar work get babied and handed free days off, “work from home” days, and unwarranted bonuses in the range of $4K… then again, they were male. Some people have your best interest in mind, but a lot of management will look down on you and disrespect your opinion and work if you’re female. There’s an overall attitude that the workplace is a measuring contest and you have to put other people down so that you can move up and get ahead. The C-Suite is just as bad if not worse. In passing, I’ve heard a few of their unsavory comments about female employees and witnessed inappropriate favoritism for underperforming male employees. They try to lead with fear and threats. It’s normal for C-Levels to patrol the floors throughout the day to see who’s in their seat. The C-Levels will give office tours to public figures and put teams on standby to fill seats and look productive for them (until 7pm on some occasions). The Sales floor is a circus, with Sports Center type scoreboards showing the amount of calls and sales each day and a cash machine in the corner. Every other Friday, someone would take at least $1K in cash from their paycheck, put it in machine, and the top sellers would get in while people screamed support, meanwhile the ring leader would shout insults. They also have rewards (almost strictly for Sales, but only recently branching out to other departments) for leadership and top performance - surprise, only one person from the tech/development department was chosen in the last year to attend the paid for overseas trip with Darko. The CEO is focused on business growth and making money as fast as possible, which is fine if you’re one of the few profiting from this place, but his communication with the company is not honest. Did I mention that they have “Performance Dashboards” on every C-Level’s widescreen TV? It’s connected to their project tracking system to see how many hours are logged on bugs, and who’s completing the most tickets. There’s a huge amount of micromanagement and fear based motivation mixed with dishonesty on the C-Level. Even when the company was bought out and there were rumors of relocating to Texas, the CEO deflected the question by saying “We’ll always have an office in San Diego.” Add that to the mass layoffs soon after and it doesn’t leave a good impression. The turnover rate at this place is ridiculous. In the last year, some teams only have 1/4 of the people stay longer than a year. There’s a reason why so many talented, dedicated employees leave so soon. This place lacks humanity, honesty, and respect.