- Toxic, degrading culture that stems directly from the top. From a business perspective, it geninunely seems like the only goal that is widely understood cross-functionally is revenue generation. That's it. Not customer value add, not engagement, not learning or understanding. Just revenue. There's lots of talk about creating long-term value (read: more $$$), but then no proactive planning or follow-through around all of the wheel-spinning that happens at the leadership level. This can lead to a lot of unecessary work that ends up going nowhere. There are so many good minds working on actually creating value, writing content, etc. But BOLD is not a company that is systemically driven to incoporate change or lateral growth.
-Business ethics issues abound, and it goes far beyond the scammy revenue model too. BOLD had a Global VP of HR quit in under two months.
- Lack of support or empowerment for employees. There is no future for talented people. You have a better shot at having a good experience here if you are any of the following: Bloviating, Self-important, Male.
- Little room for advancement or growth in most areas. There aren't clearly defined goals or objectives shared accross teams. Raises and promotions are not always anchored in tangible metrics.
- Rounds of layoffs without discernable cause or explanation, and no regard as to how this affects morale. One of the executives actually bragged about layoffs, which happened after a product he was running had a Hindenburg-style launch.
- BOLD has the potential to access compelling data sets on jobseekers and the labor market and does next to nothing with it, instead choosing to employ a primary revenue model that relies on tricking users into an expensive subscription model.
-Most of the reviews on here were directly solicited from employees. Despite what the BOLD respondent said about this being an "extremely common occurrence these days" just think about what kind of company asks its employees to write reviews, and why, especially knowing it's pretty unlikely that any employee is going to have the chutzpah to write a negative one while employed.
