Run and don't look back... - Anonymous employee BDA Employee Review

1.0
Oct 13, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some pretty nice and fun employees, fun parties, learned how to deal with very difficult people, learned how to only care about my own well-being in a job. I did get some good industry knowledge (not like I will ever go back to that industry). Working here will help you understand what to look out for and avoid when searching for a new job. The glowing, positive reviews you see on here that bash the negative posts, that is upper management trying to cover things up again. CEO is nice and if he doesn’t know your name will just say “Hey buddy!”

Cons

BDA is literally a revolving door. I have never in my career worked at such a toxic place. Worst HR team I have ever encountered. One HR rep even asked about an anonymous phone call that was made to the company where you can get anonymous legal advice...they talked about employees to other employees, never followed up on any issue that was brought up or asked employees for their take on an issue that may arrise. If there is something going on with a team or department, upper management will find someone to "pin" it on just to cover their own butts and the real culprit will be rewarded. Bad employees aren’t dealt with even when yelling or swearing meetings. Oh, swearing is almost a must if you work here, especially on the co-owners team...

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- 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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