Fun job, great people. Large work load and bad pay. - Program Coordinator BDA Employee Review

3.0
Oct 9, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The job itself is interesting, and everyone I've met is super cool and very friendly. Mentorship is readily available and if you have a question it is usually easy to find an "expert" that can assist you. I love the people and really do like the culture of "work hard, play hard". Plus half day Fridays in the summer and company picnics/AMP/Halloween parties are over the top.

Cons

Depending on the account you are on and the time of year, it can be difficult to fill your week with "meaningful" tasks. And if you have a "slow" season or time of year, management will continue to pile on smaller tedious tasks to get you back to a ~40hr/week work load. Then when you are in a crazy busy time of year, you are expected to complete all the time sensitive and major tasks while also continuing to complete the smaller BS ones. Also, the standard work day is 9hrs, not 8. Not uncommon to have to work late at night or on the weekend, depending on where your client is located. ie: East coast client needs it live online at 9am EST, that means you have to work at 6am PST to manually load it onto the website. Pay is also pretty bad in general. The position pays $15-20k less annually than other companies in the greater Seattle area, and its not uncommon to see 2-3 people leave at once for contract positions at Microsoft or Amazon. Recruiters will tell you that they promote aggressively from within and there is a lucrative bonus structure, but BDA wont let you apply for a promotion until you have been at the company 12-18 months, and the bonus structure has so many requirements (often unattainable goals) that you are lucky to receive a small portion of it, if any bonus at all. Basically, if you are being hired for an "entry level position" you will need to aggressively negotiate your salary as you will only be doing entry level work for the first 3 months or so. Also, no formal review at 90 days or 6 months. Your workload will quickly increase, but your pay will stagnate if you are not formally requesting reviews/pay raises.

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5.0
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Pros

Fun events. Lots of motivated people you work with.

Cons

Lots of work that can lead to burnout.

2.0
Mar 31, 2026
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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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