Upper management has no strategy, direction, or clue about what's going on - Eeyore BDA Employee Review

1.0
Mar 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you are lucky enough to be placed on a great team, work will be fun... If you don't get laid off.

Cons

They say there's a bonus structure but no one outside of the sales team EVER actually received one. Pay is low vs other companies. During my time at BDA, the first year was great. I loved my team, worked hard, and completely enjoyed what I did. Then things started to turn around. Support from upper management went downhill. They started spending way too much money on unimportant new projects that never succeeded, worthless booze fueled parties, and other non essential needs for the company. The owners seem to run around clueless about how a business should be run and take advice from others who are in the same boat. They have no direction or clue or plan and their strategies change day by day. Proof this is true: they won't even email org charts because "it's our policy." C'mon. Tell us the truth - you have NO idea what you're doing. Owners also say they have an open door policy but this is very clearly not true because they get defensive when an employee has a suggestion. For this company to survive they need to stop spending money on worthless things, start putting a commitment into their employees, and hire a consultant to help them learn how to run a business. So glad I'm out of this toxic environment!!!!!

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Pros

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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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