Pros
Burt Bean Seemed like a decent guy.
Cons
Ok Strap in, Im going to give you the most comprehensive review on Glassdoor about insight global, possibly one of the weirdest organizations in America. Let's start with company culture. The culture is a weird fever dream grey area between "startup" and "Corporate" Everyone is young and fresh out of college (this is by design because, you are naive and just happy to be hired out of college) and is either attractive or very Type A. They sell you on things like Red Bull Flip cup and fun happy hours, all things to distract you from how awful the actual work is. the company wants to put on this charade of startup culture and yet the dress code is something out of 1950s Wall Street, a suit and tie is required and they are VERY strict on what constitutes a suit (I wore a blue sport coat with a tie and slacks and was reprimanded for it. They even sent out a company-wide email while I was there saying that the different types of socks that some people were wearing was getting out of hand and that only solid black, blue, grey and brown socks were allowed WHAT? you encourage our employees to play college drinking games throughout the day, but you draw the line at striped socks? So unbelievably backwards and strange. It's a real sip the kool aide kind of company, they try to make you believe that you're doing something other than making phone calls for corporate equivalent of minimum wage, and the sad part it, a lot of people buy it. They have happy hours during the week fairly often that you are basically forced to attend, even after working a 12 hour day. I decided to not go to one once because my commute home was well over an hour with traffic (because they moved my office to a different town two weeks after I was hired) and I just wanted to get home. The next day I was called in to talk to the manager, and was asked if I was serious about working at IG and if I was enjoying my time, I told them that I simply was tired and had a long commute, to which they responded by listing off all the other employees who had long commutes that attended the happy hour, real dictator type stuff. Which brings me to my next point, work-life balance. There is none, yeah the conferences are fun, but THE'YRE ON THE WEEKEND. You also shamed if you go home any time before six o'clock, even if you hit your numbers for the day. We went out one night to a bar and they literally started doing company work chants at the bar like some kind of college basketball student section, its obnoxious and cult-like. People who stay long enough to be an account manager are arrogant and act like they are better than you because they made more phone calls than you. The pay is awful, something like 35k a year, which they can get away with because it is mostly college grads who are still living at home, who don't have real expenses yet, and they know the most of them will quit before they get to the age where they need to start making good money to live. The commission structure is weird and all depends on how many people you've gotten hired, and how badly you've ripped them off. If you're in a smaller market, your potential for good commission is minuscule, as its basically a numbers game, if you're in a smaller market, there's just less opportunity to place clients. You are also shamed if you take vacation and are effectively demoted when you come back, because you fall so far behind on work. Which brings me to my next point and I don't know if this has changed but they didn't allow you to put your company email on your personal cell phone because they 'didn't want you take your work home with you" THEN HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO TAKE VACATION AND NOT FALL BEHIND ON WORK?? clearly they do it, not because they want to give you work life balance, its because they don't ant you to take vacation! Ok I could literally write pages on this place but I'll end it here. Bottom line is this place is a strange, awful, and just a part of my life that I have mostly blocked out. Stay away, or you'll regret it.
