Sour Grapes - Anonymous employee BDA Employee Review

5.0
Sep 7, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I just hope people are able to see through the intentions of a few who clearly have an ax to grind. I worked at BDA for 6 years and enjoyed every minute -- and during that time it was voted one of PSBJ's Best Places to Work 5 of those years. The company is creative, dynamic, young, energetic, hardworking and lead by owners who care about their employees and their employee's families. In fact, while I was there I was diagnosed with a serious disease and the amount of compassion and support I received from not just my friends at work but the entire organization (from HR staff and personally from the two owners) was unmatched and extraordinary. Finally, the client roster is unmatched in any agency I've ever encountered during my career (either directly or indirectly). I would recommend this company to my very best friends and while personal decision required my departure, I would go back in a heartbeat.

Cons

There is a culture of "Meetings" which can be consuming, but with the nature and complexity of the business they do I guess they are necessary.

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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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