Ok place to work - Anonymous employee BDA Employee Review
2.0
Jun 21, 2019
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 5 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Challenging environment. Constant work so never a lull.
Cons
Limited growth opportunities, if any, when not located at Corp despite so many locations across the globe. Will work you 80+ hours if you keep succeeding, expecting you to keep going and ignore you when asking for help.
BDA Response
6y
It is true work-life balance can be challenging, but entirely achievable, at BDA. When you are good at what you do, members want to get in on that action by getting your help. However, you have the right and responsibility to only say yes to projects that fit within your own work life balance. But being true to yourself and staying within your “target work rate” (think target heart rate at the gym) makes you better! Too much and you will damage yourself, too little and you will not achieve results.
- 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.