Growth Opportunity, Caring/Fun Culture, Expanding Market - Business Development Manager MyBuys Employee Review

5.0
Jul 13, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-Significant opportunities to advance rapidly (less than 2 years with MyBuys, received 3 promotions) -High-exposure to upper-management/executive-team -Fast-growing company, market-leader -Opportunity to manage important initiatives early in your career -Rotational program for new-hires to develop skills in a wide-range of jobs quickly -Management invests heavily in their employees -Fun culture -Opportunities to experience light-business travel -Caring and accommodating environment -Challenging responsibilities -Very little micro-managing, management trusts their employees and give them lots of "rope" -Recognize talent and retains talent well -1:1 mentors to help employees grow

Cons

-Entry-level pay feels relatively low compared to initial value-add but is still a fair for someone just entering the industry w/o directly relevant experience (as you advance, this changes) -Due to rapid growth, some growing-pains exist internally (support engineering keeping up with exponential increases in sales, growth caused some over-crowding in A2 office, etc...) -Downtown Ann Arbor location can present some challenges/costs (parking, traffic, etc...), though we are in the process of finding a new office

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5.0
Oct 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

-the Ann Arbor office is full of young, talented individuals who are passionate about their work -management is creative and new products are implemented frequently -there is a large amount of mobility between departments and employees can experience different roles -HR is extremely understanding, approachable, and dedicated to improving the workplace -company hierarchy is fairly flat; lower level employees can make an impact on the company as a whole -the rapid growth of the industry makes the work interesting, exciting and frequently educational -the training provided to new hires at the BDA role is immensely helpful to those who are new to sales -company culture that extends to events outside the office leads to a strong community of co-workers

Cons

-the day-to-day duties in the BDA role are often tedious, tiring and can be frustrating -performance based compensation is sometimes difficult to achieve without exceptional dedication and work ethic

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2.0
Dec 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Very unique company to work for in the Southeast Michigan Area A great opportunity for young professionals to get sales experience (note that the BDA role is not quota carrying, it's meeting setting / cold calling; BDAs support Sales Representatives). Company offers a good work life, social life balance at 40 hours a week MyBuys received 20 million dollars in venture capitalist funding in 2010

Cons

Culture can be fratty and an extension of college There is an extremely high turnover rate amongst both entry level and senior level employees There is one internal HR person for about 130 employees and very little access to HR, making HR issues difficult to acknowledge and benefits information difficult to receive Management is very hands off and tends to step in reactively to solve problems Sales driven organization with very little product focus. Very little technical support and bare bones engineering team. The product does not work as marketed / sold to clients. Client turnover rate is extremely high.

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