Pros
None- Maybe if you want a short term job
Cons
I’ve never written a negative job review before, but I feel obligated to in this case to try to help my fellow job applicants. DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT get a job here. (especially as an MIT). The company culture that they endorse is that you should give up your life for the company, even if you don’t get a pay raise or promotion. You can tell the MIT program targets recent college grads with little to no work experience, and SBM purposefully makes this job enticing to 1) gain work experience 2) give extensive “training” to people without experience and 3) have a seemingly high/competitive pay. However, do not fall for it because it will end up being a waste of your time where you could have spent getting experience elsewhere in a legitimate company. First, the starting salary is high because they do not give pay raises when you’re promoted from an MIT to a site manager. They may increase it to offset the cost of living if you are moved to an expensive area, but not a true pay raise is given. They also very rarely give managers in operations any form of a raise, just an increase in workload. I’ve never heard of or experienced a company that would not give you a pay raise with an increase in workload or with a title change that normally indicates a promotion. They also expect you to be on call and available 24/7 and to work whatever hours the site you’re placed at works with no compensation in pay. For example, when you’re hired into the MIT program you’re given a salaried job which assumes a 40 hour work week. However, you could be asked to travel to and work at a site with 70-80 hour work weeks (and sometimes have no days off) for months on end. Due to these things, the starting salary is not actually competitive or high. They hire a lot of MITs, so they’re quick to fire you for any reason. Be prepared to have NO job security while working here. Also, they will also lie to you about the role during the hiring process. I think this is because the company as a whole has poor communication across their departments, so the recruiters never know the realities/expectations of the job you’re hiring into. For example, during interviewing multiple MITs and myself were told that travel is not required especially if you’re in a situation where you have a family, mortgage, or you’re in school. We were also told that if you are relocated, they will work with you to relocate you to an area that works with you. However, this is not true. They require EXTENSIVE travel (and for people to travel at sometimes one days notice), even if you have a family/ kids/school/house in your home state that prevent you from dropping everything and traveling with no warning and for an unknown length of time AND they will hold it against you (fire you) if you cannot travel. They also do NOT work with you on where you are permanently relocated to, they tell you what state to move to and that’s it. In addition to this, I was also told by multiple employees at the company that if you have a family and you value your family time over working and traveling, then you won’t go far in the company. And from my experiences/observations, this is true. The company as a whole is also very disjointed and this leads to people on the operations side of things having unrealistic demands placed on them by senior leadership / upper management who do not understand the realities of operations. It’s also very hard to feel or get any support as the company is quick to place blame on mid-level employees when things go wrong and fire them instead of actually looking into what caused these failures to happen. The MIT program also does not do anything to prepare you for your role. The MIT program is run by people who never went through the program themselves for site management, or even work in operations. Therefore, they tend to give you information that isn’t even applicable to how a site really runs. Another thing that this company does is place unrealistic expectations (with no additional support given) on people to be able to perform jobs that they are not qualified to perform. And when their employees inevitably do not do well, SBM will blame them for these failures and fire them. I was also told that SBM works with people to move them into other roles within the company that may interest them and the company as a whole promotes that MITs go on to hold top level positions in all areas company. However, this is not true. MITs were regularly fired from the MIT program because they expressed interest in moving to other departments besides operations. I have to stress that you will have NO job security here when working in management and you will be hard pressed to get an increase in pay (even if you’re given more responsibilities and a job title promotion).
