They're trying to blind you with propaganda. And they use sites like this. - Job/Career Specialist SoftRock Employee Review

1.0
Feb 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

They have free lunch on Fridays, free soda and coffee. They're good at lying and propaganda marketing.

Cons

They're lying to you day one. A lot of the reviews on this site and many others were made up by their tech team. Look at the dates of the reviews on some of the sites. No company has more than 5 positive review written about the company in one day. But this company does. If you choose to interview with this company, just be forewarned that you'll be spending a lot of time and money before you even start to work. You'll have an interview by phone, followed by a physical interview, followed by a 2 hour training orientation, followed by a full day "test drive". These all occur on separate days. The test drive involves you running around the company playing their "investigative detective" game. They try to show you how cool and modern everyone at the company is. They're trying to trick you into thinking that they're something that they're not. Nerf guns, Nintendos, flying drones, and concerts is what they want to show you. They don't you to know about the dreary repetitive work and exaggerated money you're supposed to be making until you're already doing it. When you complete test drive, you'll have to come back again and hear whether or not they're interested in hiring you (but a phone call would have been fine right?). But you're not done. You'll have another 3 days of "orientation" that is basically unpaid training. That's all the real training you get. Because "Bootcamp" is actually just you working more hours than anyone for minuscule pay. There is little guidance and your "trainers" aren't helping you. They describe the job as something that enables you to help people. It does no such thing. You read off of a script more than 25 times a day. You can't go off script, and you can't improvise. You just lie to them. You're not helping anybody get a job, you're just talking to help your company make money. If you don't push to sell them education then you wont get paid above minimum wage. If you can't make the money for the company, they'll fire you. If you have moral issues with what's going on, they'll fire you. If you show up late, they'll make you repeat bootcamp or fire you. If your performance is lacking, they'll fire you. They're not worried about you. Don't believe that they are. They ask you guys to bring up issues or problems with them so that they know they should pay attention to you so they can fire you. They have fired entire bootcamps to save the company money. You are expendable and the job is easy enough to have you replaced. If you don't believe it, pay attention. There are people going through orientation and bootcamp before and after you. They do it all the time because people get fired or quit.

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5.0
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Pros

Great environment, great employees we play hard and work hard!

Cons

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5.0
Aug 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I am proud to be apart of a great innovative, dynamic, and diverse company like Softrock. Softrock has created an amazing atmosphere for all employees during the hiring and training process. All the departments from Human Resources, Media, IT, Marketing, and Management work effectively together to create a fun and professional environment where everyone can feel comfortable, happy, and welcome. Softrock is one of the very few companies known to provide exciting events such as holiday parties, cookouts, and sports so that way everyone can come together to interact and have fun. With the positive feedback and support from Managers, Softrock has managed to grow successfully as a company since 2005 by giving everyone that comes on board an opportunity to grow and achieve a fun exciting long-term career. And last but not least, one of the best things that makes Softrock so unique and a great company compared to other companies is our CEO Alec Difrawi. Not only is Alec recognized for his hard work and dedication managing the company as a whole but also takes the time to get to know everyone individually in every department as much as possible and is aware of everyone's success. In conclusion, this is why I am proud to be working for Softrock.

Cons

One of the things that I least like about Softrock is the long exhausting four step process to get hired and the exhausting , stressfull 12 hour shift for two weeks training only.

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