Prospective employees steer clear - Anonymous employee Constant Contact Employee Review

When I joined Constant Contact, they were still a part of Endurance. I envisioned that I was going to be at this company for a long time. The people were great, the work was interesting, and management still had employees best interests in mind for the most part. Like others have reviewed, when Constant Contact was purchased by Clearlake, everything changed. Management was forced out and a new team was brought in. This new team has one goal in mind, to make the new owners as much money as possible as fast as they can with the reward of cashing in their stock when the company is sold again. Talented employees have been leaving in droves. Positions were not backfilled, yet the same amount of work was expected with fewer people. COVID brought the business record new accounts and revenues, yet there was no money to pay employees cost of living increases. Flexible work arrangements are not always honored, especially when every single executive lives in a different state/country. The focus is no longer about developing employees, learning new skills, and valuing culture; just cutting expenses and pleasing the VC owners. Steer clear at all costs, there are many amazing companies out there, this just isn’t one of them.