huge disappointment - Anonymous employee BDA Employee Review

2.0
Mar 29, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

best people to work with, the job itself can be enjoyable, great vendors to work with, free snacks from time to time.

Cons

get ready to be lied to from the get go...promises of bonuses (chances are slim) they will tell you that your family but it's a highly dysfunctional one and will abuse your work ethic. Heavy workload and an inefficient data system will require some to work overtime and most are not compensated as they pay salary with the non-existent bonus to compensate your many late evenings at the office. high number of last offs. very little support from your management. very low pay. office politics are ridiculous, sometimes feels like high school and not in a good way.

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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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