iNET Web reviews about "time"

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.

I have many critical things to say about iNET web. I'll limit myself to one anecdote that I think is representative of the iNET web experience. In March 2020 there was that one day where the entire country realized Coronavirus would be a thing that would be affecting our daily lives. As I'm sure you remember it was a pretty scary time. We were all looking for a little direction about what that would mean for our working lives. Surely we'd be working from home. There's no logical reason a web marketing company can't be run almost completely remote. Imagine our surprise when we received a company wide email from our intrepid CEO, Steven Libbey explaining to us 3 points: 1. iNET would UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES be working remote. 2. The flu kills more people every year than the coronavirus (Steve had even had the flu once and it wasn't that bad!) 3. The coronavirus pandemic was a liberal conspiracy to sway the 2020 presidential election. We eventually did end up working remote for a couple months when it was mandated by the state. As soon as we were legally able to we were all forced back into the office. Surprise, surprise, a few months later COVID swept through the office and infected about 75% of us. If that wasn't bad enough, for the next few months we had to listen to other high level employees on the sales team complain to clients about how while we were working remote we collectively worked fewer hours. Mind you iNET employees are hourly, so it wasn't about time theft, it was about people not making iNET their top priority at a time when... there was some other stuff going on. As I said, this is one anecdote. Please do not work here. It is a toxic environment. I know the interview is easy and you might be desperate for a job right out of college, but you can do better.

Benefits could be better depending on your situation. Takes a few years to build up a meaningful amount of PTO, but I’ve also never seen time-off requests denied (paid or unpaid), so you can still take whatever time off you need. My only real gripe is no 401k, but so far the pay has been good enough for it to not be a deal breaker personally.

Like any organization, there have been occasional challenges and cultural mismatches among employees that have been hired. However, these are generally addressed promptly and do not overshadow the overall positive experience at iNET.

The only plus side to my time there is that I have never seen an unemployment claim go through so fast. The WI unemployment office probably has a hilariously long history with this company. Considering this company's reputation in the area, I have half a mind to pretend I never even worked there going forward. There's this idea that it has never been easier to lie on your resume thanks to the internet. I would like to add to that and mention that it has never been easier for a company to lie about itself. These people know exactly how to hide just how poorly their business is run, and how little they value new hires. Just look at their marketing site, read that garbage and tell me it wasn't written by a clerk from Cousin's Subs trying to make their sandwiches sound like Gordan Ramsay made them. You will be offered a position that you did not apply for – and you will not be able to change positions once you start. At some point during my time there I became aware of the fact that there were no fewer than 7 people with Comp Sci / Graphic Design degrees that were offered unrelated jobs and told when hired they could move into their desired positions. NONE of them successfully switched desks, and not surprisingly, NONE of them work at iNET anymore. During my time at iNET I probably saw 2 dozen people come and go... new hires, interns, 8 year veterans... the company is barely 4 dozen total btw. You will not be trained - iNET does not employ anyone with enough experience to train you. Those kinds of employees are outside of iNET's business model, and those kind of activities are viewed as useless overhead. I was "trained" about HTML specifications that were 14 years out of date. INET does not train people, because they know anyone they train will eventually wake up to the job pool outside of Waukesha, and realize they're worth more money anywhere else in the world. You will not be managed - iNET does not employ anyone with any experience to manage you. The projects have no defined standards or expectations, they just add / remove quality depending on how much money the project budget is. Starting out, you will work on the small throwaway projects alongside other similarly trained newbies, and you will all fall flat on your face. When I was given advice on how to develop sites faster, some real gems offered included things like “instead of naming a SCSS color variable '$white', name it '$w' to save time typing the other four letters.” You will not earn a decent wage - I had to beg for a 1 year review, and afterwards was told that the CEO would need to be consulted regarding any raise I would get. I was told the CEO is moody, and that I to wait for the right time to bring up a raise. I had to wait one month to be told I was getting stiffed. Not one red cent. A year's worth of training myself, a year's worth of continuous, measurable performance increases, during historic gas prices and inflation, and iNET could not find enough money in the coffers to raise me up above gas-station wages. You will not be mentored - iNET's ethos is basically "low retention is inevitable – why contain it?". Why waste time mentoring junior level employees when you can just replace them every 2 months? When you ask questions you will be talked down to, the people who answer them will not even necessarily know the correct answer, and the best part: the time your team takes to answer your question will be logged on your project. I was told not continue my education for the sole reason that once I had a BS in Comp Sci I would quit and work somewhere else for a higher wage. A rare bout of honesty, I only wish it slipped out 12 months earlier. You will compete with your own team - Every project is a silo, and the CEO fosters a workplace of competition, not teamwork. You will not learn a single healthy professional habit – This company operates entirely outside of the box, they choose to ignore 40 years of proven process and guidelines. You will be told to work hard while every tenured employee around you phones it in. You will not be proud of the work you do. Every site looks the same. Every project is bid poorly. The proprietary CMS software is a joke. It is poorly maintained, has worse UX than Dwarf Fortress(google it), and overall feels like an aborted community college project designed by someone who has never used any software before – much less a web application. It isn't worth the hard drive it lives on. It's only saving grace is that it perfectly proves just how silver-tongued the salesmen are. Picture Wordpress if it existed in 1992, was designed by Jackson Pollock, and had 10% of the features. Every customer is laughed at behind their backs for being a good mark. You can't have scope creep if there is never a scope. The standards that do exist make no sense what so ever. Has anyone in the history of UX design heard of making submit buttons red? Why test sites on Firefox when EDGE has more users? You will not be a part of the team - iNET has a core group of workers and you ain't in it. tl;dr: If you're an entry level person, just get a job ANYWHERE ELSE and find a community online to help build your skills. Train yourself, because that is all iNET will tell you to do. Hell, work remote for some shady startup that will fold in a few months, it doesn't matter. INET is, without a doubt in my mind, the single most jacked-up business I have ever worked for... from the leadership down to the procedures and product. I wish I was kidding. Very quickly it became apparent that they could not care less about my development as an employee. KwikTrip pays better than iNET does. iNET will use you, and no they won't buy you dinner first.