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1.8

10% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

Jon Aram

10% approve of CEO

9% positive business outlook

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5.0
Oct 15, 2017

Great atmosphere and co-workers

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, annual merit-based raises, bonuses, and company-sponsored perks. Beautiful workspace and a good group of colleagues.

Cons

Communication from higher ups (regarding terminations, big company changes) has been weak in the past, but they've taken in the feedback and they are making an effort to turn this around.

1.0
Jul 4, 2015

A company you survive.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

VHL is a profitable company that has industry leading products driving its growth.

Cons

It would be impossible to cover all of VHL's faults in a single review but I will attempt to cover the more critical ones. First and foremost VHL is a company that instills fear in employees by creating an environment where everyone is in constant fear of losing their job or losing favor of senior management (namely the CEO). All employees are seen as expendable, and not an asset that brings value to the company. Second, VHL operates on a predatory business model that attempts to exploit people through low wages, long hours and the use of temporary employment agencies for any and all positions it can. Third, as expressed by other reviewers, the CEO works to undermine the efforts of his employees by constantly second guessing them and leaving them in a state of self doubt. Time and time again he will commit to a strategy and than abandon it on a whim. This leads his senior management to do anything they can to win his favor in order to remain secure in their jobs.

1.0
Jun 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Many coworkers are wonderful, intelligent, hardworking people. - Pay and benefits are good relative to other similar publishers. - You have the chance to work on a variety of things and build a variety of skills because there's plenty of work to go around. - You could have the opportunity to solidify your knowledge by training your future replacement who will work for the company's 'preferred vendor' in Colombia. - You'll learn to recognize when a worker is being set up to fail or queued for termination. - You could become the next favorite. - You won't be troubled with office announcements about coworkers being fired, I mean, pursuing opportunities elsewhere, or leaving the company or any other such negativity because VHL is a positive place to work. - You're more likely to have your position eliminated than be outright fired. - The newest iteration of HR also appears to be making efforts to address the office morale (which is so abysmal you could go spelunking in it (don't worry, spelunking is good. It's a perk, like office ping-pong or something)) after receiving comments related to, among other things, the latest wave of badly explained or (more often) unexplained firings, and after constantly needing to explain away glass door each time its asked about in interviews (a tedious task). I believe their efforts have gotten as far as recruiting middle management to contribute some less negative reviews. While that is further than previous iteration's efforts have gone to address the challenges of a growing business, knowing upper management, that's likely as far as their efforts can go.

Cons

There are none that come to mind.

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