Don't accept a position with them - Anonymous employee BDA Employee Review

1.0
May 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They'll wow you with lavish parties and happy hours. Lots of forced enthusiasm and talk about being a family. They send you merchandise as gifts- a bunch of unnecessary things you'll end up tossing out.

Cons

Too many to mention, so I'll keep it short: -smoke in mirrors (beware) -they promise lots of things which end up not happening - the worst part: they overhire and take you through a strenuous number of events, put you through boot camp (they call it Sales U)...an entire week of no sunshine sitting in a room listening to endless talk and make you put together presentations on the spot. At the end of this, they give you, what else, a party to celebrate your graduation. You get home and then are told you're let go. About half of our group was let go. These are people that said no to other opportunities to take this one and after one month on the job were let go without cause. You didn't even get a chance to have a chance at showing what you can do. I should mention the interviewing process is also strenuous and you'd think they would be able to know at that point who can do it and who can't. Absolutely unfair and unethical treatment of employees due to their own ineptitude. They made a reality show out of the hiring process. The other half that didn't get let go, some of them have left of their own will.

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Cons

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Pros

- Decent base salary if this is your first job out of University. - Free Swag - WFH Fridays - Smart and helpful colleagues

Cons

- Incredibly stressful, do NOT take this job if you do not have a high stress tolerance. - A ton of competing priorities that almost always require quick/immediate action. - You get a ton of emails and are expected to be able to pull up and reference any of them at a moments notice. - Constant whiplash between doing deep, focused work (presentation/catalogs) that have a ton of details and require your full attention versus quick/rapid fire tasks that you must address immediately. There were days where I was working on one presentation all day and couldn't get it done because of how much I was getting pinged to resolve other issues. - To get promoted you must essentially do the job of 2 people (CSC and PSA). Beyond that, there is no real career progression unless you want to go into sales. - Management always says to raise your hand if you need help. But when you ask for help, there is always pushback in the form of others having more task hours than you. - CEO took away one of the WFH days. When Qualtrics had negative feedback he essentially said "If you don't like it - then leave". He is a "Do as I say, not as I do." type of leader. - Workload and responsibilities are not commiserate to the salary.

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