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Pros
- Location, if you live in Central NJ - Casual Dress code - Good place to get experience to get early in your career to take somewhere else. - Working here is a craps shoot, find the right manager or have someone at the top fall in love with you and you are golden. - If you work really hard and buy into the cult mentality you usually will get rewarded for it. They do offer good incentives to compensate their best performers. - This can be a great place to work if you have the right manager/director and are willing to work really hard to get ahead.
Cons
- If you work in any non sales or marketing role here there are near zero growth opportunities. You are there to support the sales and marketing teams so don't expect to grow with the company. You are there to take orders, so leave your ethics at the door. - There is very little accountability of the C team and upper management. Inexperienced managers aren't developed and often manage their teams into the ground. That's 100% fine with ICIMS as long as they keep growing at all costs and protect incapable managers. - The company is near all out chaos on any given day, and employees are coached by marketing to post positive reviews on Glassdoor. If you ask an employee once, they will say they love ICIMS...ask them twice and you will find most people are looking to leave within the next 6-12 months. - The definition of culture fit here is "young, driven, willing, and able". Work life balance is terrible in most groups, so they purposely avoid hiring anyone who won't drink the juice or work 10-12 hour days. If you have a family and are looking for a 9-5 steer clear. - If you miss your numbers one month or someone important gets the impression you don't enjoy killing yourself at work they are VERY quick to manage people out. Some people who were average performers have been literally handed a box and walked out of the building.