No leadership - Anonymous employee The Salem Group Employee Review

Salem lacks leadership. The owners of the company are extremely nice, but are not business people by any stretch of the imagination, something they also lack. They are firmly entrenched in 1985 (with systems to match) and the company is notoriously back office heavy. Instead of the sales organization driving the business, lazy and rude hangers-on in a bloated back office run the show. If they can get in the way of producers making money, they'll find a way! A very D-list book of business and marketing programs developed by an Executive Assistant and you've got a company that doesn't grow, just languishes in neutral. Good people leave as soon as they figure out they were promised a future and financial gain that never materialize and slackers stay for years. The worst of the worst are promoted instead of fired and into strangely titled executive positions where they can do even less.