iNET Web reviews

3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

(84 total reviews)
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Steven Libbey

64% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

iNET Web has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 84 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The iNET Web employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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84 reviews
1.0
Apr 1, 2020
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Pros

Nope nope nope nope nope

Cons

There's an abhorrent lack of communication, empathy, and camaraderie between coworkers and teams. Projects are given insane deadlines and everything goes over budget. Everything. Poor communication and leadership. Very, very, very few opportunities for advancement. Products and services are done with a "quantity over quality" philosophy. Sink or swim environment, no training. Lots of quiet hostility and high school clique vibes going on. Practices vary from person to person–no proper process or procedure. Many folks are flying by the seat of their pants. The proprietory CMS is...odd. Sales people talk poorly about clients–they're fleecing them. Most of the equipment there is old, and will likely only be replaced if there is a critical failure. Lots of people wearing more than one hat, which creates an environment where you have people spreading out their time and energy instead of focusing on what they're good at. Fostering growth through mentorship and patience doesn't exist here. No direct deposit. All checks are physical and have to be handed/mailed to you. No real HR department. Read all of the reviews–notice how the reviews with 4 or 5 stars aren't as helpful as the ones with 2 or 1. Read them, and see which ones are telling you the honest truth. If you're out there looking for work in our field and you see that inet is hiring, keep looking. I don't know who you are, but I can assure you that you deserve better than what inet has to offer.

2.0
Apr 6, 2019

Get In, Get What you Need, Get Out

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Upper management is not very smart so once you figure them out they're pretty easy to dance around. Outside of sales, every job in the building is basically a sandbox. If you're new to web design or front end dev or SEO/web marketing, it's a fairly consequence-free environment to learn while getting paid (significantly under market value). Yes, you might get yelled at by a mostly inchoate baboon or two, but the world inside of iNET is entirely separate from the real world. No one really knows it exists, and the people who do regard it as a joke, so just learn everything you can while you can tolerate it, then move up to something better as soon as you outgrow them.

Cons

First things first, in the time I was there the turnover rate was above 100% per year. The cons are innumerable, but the one thing that arches above them all is that you will never, ever, ever make a market-rate salary. There are no shortage of terrible web and marketing firms out there, but at least some of them make up for it by throwing money at you to ignore the problems. Not here. Even when they agree to pay you more, it's usually attached to some kind of impossible condition. As I said above, it's an ok place to get your feet wet, especially if you're new to the field or lack experience, but don't believe them when they try to tell you you'll never succeed anywhere else. They have no pull with anyone of consequence and have no power over your career outside their walls. Oh, the CEO once wrote a 5,000 word article for a hobby magazine wherein he spent at least two-thirds of it deriding a pair of employees with unnecessary personal insults. He is a special kind of insecure snowflake.

1.0
Jul 6, 2015

Great bonds with co-workers because they are all unighted by fear.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Employees develop great relationships with peers that lasts for (in some cases) years past their time working at iNET. A big reason why co-workers bond so well is because they need to support each other when they each inevitably become the target for the fear and domination style of management that iNET implements. People who had/have long tenures at iNET seemed to either agree with the militant and unflinching leadership, or they were able to keep their head down and take it. The work is varied and exciting. Because all of the work is client work, the tasks that come in through the door are rarely the same, so if you enjoy creative problem solving, you would probably enjoy the type of clients that iNET attracts. You'll never be bored. Often iNET will hire people as their first job in the industry. It's good for them to build up their resume. But I'd recommend that they leave when they have the opportunity.

Cons

- I experienced a pressure cooker type of environment - It seemed to have a blame centric approach to problem handling - I saw a low tolerance for opposing viewpoints

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