Company is an ok job, but a terrible career choice - Anonymous employee Build.com Employee Review

I'm sorry that you left the company with such a bad taste in your mouth. While we may be beyond reprieve in your eyes, I'd like to address some of the criticisms. 1. Nepotism : This was mentioned by other reviewers. Mimicking my other response, I here two different messages from people who are unhappy. One is that you have to know someone here to get ahead, the other I hear is that we are too hard on the numbers and should focus on the people. All I can say is that we strive to take a fair and balanced approach and I apologize that you've experienced otherwise. 2. Compensation : Given some of the recent frustration around compensation we're going to start publishing compensation ranges for positions / employees. We try and make sure that each person in a given position has the opportunity to quickly accelerate to the top of their respective compensation band based on performance. This will hopefully add some transparency of what is capable. We are unforgivingly continuing to move the bar up so people have to work harder to make more. If you are against this concept, that may be the cause of some of your frustration. 3 Executive Qualifications : Restating my position on this from before: Yes, we are a promote from within organization. Many of our executives ( including myself ) have no other executive experience. The good news is that because we like to promote from within, there are lots of opportunities, however, some of the leadership comes from on the job training. It is a double edged sword, but we error on the side of promoting from within to continue to create opportunities for existing employees. We have recently hired more experienced executives and it has provided a different perspective and is allowing us all to grow. 4. Meaningful Ideas: Admittedly, as we get bigger and bigger it is getting harder and harder to birth new concepts. We're constantly innovating, albeit at a slower pace. My door is always open however to new ideas and I'm always willing to help get you the right resources. I guess we never connected. 5. Firing Dissenters: I have never fired anyone for disagreeing with me or my ideas. In fact I joke with my VP of Finance who is constantly challenging my assumptions. Basically he refutes everything I suggest. We have a culture of "creative dissent" and it keeps us on our toes. People get fired or demoted by me for doing an unsatisfactory job over and over again and/or not taking accountability for their own failures. What you saw otherwise was most likely not my action or hearsay. While I understand your anger drives you to suggest that I should be fired and we should flush out the management team, the company is performing very well. My team and I all attend peer groups and trainings to try and continue to improve our game. We are far from perfect, but working hard to improve and do our best. These posts have made us look introspectively, and we are doing more company surveys to find out how things will get even better here. We don't expect everyone to be happy, but these angry posts make us take pause. While angry and inflammatory, we still appreciate you making the effort. I am sorry that your overall experience with Build.com was poor, and I hope that whatever employment you find elsewhere better suits you.