The ship is sinking - Anonymous employee BDA Employee Review

1.0
Jul 25, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They paid me, which was nice.

Cons

Management is awful, HR was cliquey and mean. Fun to note too, sort the reviews here by date and watch the ratings trends. Isn't it SO WEIRD that all of these 5 star reviews started popping up after their rating tanked? Hmmm... They're not trying to stack reviews or anything...

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BDA Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We recognize that in the past we were remiss in not participating in the conversation. But since early this year as part of a broader communication strategy, we’ve been making a concerted effort to respond to reviews quickly, and people have appreciated that and are more engaged. It’s human nature when we have a less than satisfactory experience, to share that information with friends, family, and colleagues. But most often when we have a satisfactory experience or better, we don’t share information because that’s just what we expect. We apologize that your time at BDA wasn’t satisfactory and think what you’re seeing on Glassdoor with our ratings increasing is more positive participation and people at BDA speaking up that genuinely enjoy their work, clients, and colleagues. People have friends here, they make their livelihoods here, and provide for their families based upon the success of the company. We don’t take those things for granted and neither do our associates. When somebody posts inaccurate information that threatens those things, they, as do we, feel compelled to share our experiences, which are different than yours, and that’s o.k. That’s the beauty of this medium, everybody gets to have their say and gets to feel their own way. If you would be open to sharing more details about your experience, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us at feedback@bdainc.com.

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Cons

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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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