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3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

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Steven Libbey

64% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

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1.0
Nov 24, 2021
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Pros

Some of the people are cool. Sometimes you get to work on cool projects, but those are rare and really only reserved for clients that are closely tied to management.

Cons

-The benefits: 5 days vacation for the first 3 years or so. Lowest quality health, dental, vision, etc. No 401K - Upper-level sales team/management would talk almost non-stop all day about what's happening outside of work - or just gossip about someone they didn't like in the *very* open office. -They clearly take advantage of people right out of college desperate for a job. Raises - given that you sell, sell, sell baby! - are enticing at first, but get more infrequent or disappear altogether the longer you're there, because why give a raise to someone who can do the job when you can hire an inexperienced person to eat hours at a cheaper rate? -Frequently feels like account managers have to lie to clients on projects or labor just to fill an arbitrary billable hour quota for the owner. - The workload asks were crazy, overtime was seen as an expectation rather than an option. Adequate time and/or attention was never given to accounts. -Being verbally berated in the open office, having your emails read and used against you, and other unprofessional tactics used by the owner create a toxic environment that completely ruined any hope for productivity.

1.0
Sep 1, 2021
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Pros

The pros unfortunately outweighed the cons when I started at iNET. -They will hire basically anyone -You get digital marketing experience -The benefits are horrible but you can negotiate higher pay because of that -Cool coworkers

Cons

iNET is a very manipulative environment. Management pits people against each other, will message you half-formed thoughts and expect you to complete tasks based on those thoughts, and will make fun of your coworkers. You will meet some really cool people if you decide to work at iNET, but management is haphazard and they're just intent on blaming their problems on everyone else. Management believes that everyone who has an issue with their management style is just a snowflake and call people losers because they quit because they can't handle the iNET environment. Their glassdoor reviews are horrible because the company culture is terrible. Management asked me not to leave a Glassdoor review, and then proceeded to tell me that "no policies at iNET have ever been changed because of a Glassdoor review." iNET does not want to change, iNET doesn't want to grow. They do horrible work with an inexperienced staff that rotates out every 3 years. If they worked on retention and company culture that wouldn’t be the story. Learn, build your resume, and then run.

1.0
Jul 31, 2020
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Pros

They are the laughing stock of the Wisconsin digital marketing community. The only reason they're even on any other agency's radar is not because of competition, but because everyone makes fun of how awful their work is, so you can pretty much do whatever you want & nothing will matter anyway.

Cons

They will spend more time trying to get this deleted/cover it up with fake positive reviews than actually taking steps to make themselves better, so I will keep this short. If you are desperate for a job - literally risking living on the streets - go ahead and take a job here until you can get back on your feet. If you have ANY other option, skip past this one. My experience at iNet did not advance me in any way, and despite having over a year of experience, I left iNet at square one because no one in the industry considers iNet experience real experience. Other digital marketing companies view hiring former iNet employees as a rescue mission. The company is often described by other agencies as “a puppy mill for marketers.” NO one is threatened by them as far as client success, because all the tactics they use are unethical and there is no real skill used in their marketing “strategies.” Everyone laughs at them as they run around thinking they’re the big dogs - It’s honestly kind of adorable now that I’m back out in the real world. At the agency I’m at now, I am making nearly twice as much money, with a more comprehensive benefits package, 401k, unlimited time off, and professional development opportunities, all while doing half the “work” I did at this place. The difference is the work matters because there’s actual formal training at my latest company, while everything at inet is “figure it out yourself,” so no one knows how to do anything. If you want to make a livable wage doing something that matters even the smallest amount, look for something else.

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