I've worked at BDA for several years and greatly enjoy my job. I prefer a job that is challenging, keeps me busy and gives me growth opportunities. I've found those at BDA. One of BDA's core values, is Work Hard, Play Hard and we do! I look forward to more years with BDA!
Cons
BDA has had some growing pains the past few years (acquisitions, onboarding new large clients at the busiest time of the year, warehouse issues), but is learning from the challenges and is emerging a better company.
BDA Response
6y
Thank you for the great feedback! We look forward to more years with you as well!
- 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.