Millennial Trap - Extremely Toxic Environment with No Perks or Movement
Pros
If you can survive here, you’ll be able to work ANYWHERE because nowhere is as bad as AdMed. You'll learn a lot about yourself and meet some talented people along the way (who also come and go).
Cons
This place is a trap with false hopes and promises. If I could go back, I would not choose to work here again. You can get the same experience elsewhere and probably for a lot less stress and with your dignity in tact. At AdMed, yes, everything is accelerated, fast paced and deadline driven. And for the longest time I gave the company slack because I thought it was “the clients” or the typical “agency life” that was causing all these messes, bad decisions and miscommunication. Well, I was 100% wrong. AdMed goes out of their way to make things extremely difficult for no reason. It starts with the owner, then Account Management then spills into every department, making workflow an absolute nightmare. Not to mention, the owner constantly changes her mind (while fully aware of deadlines) making everyone scramble to get things completed at the eleventh hour. She constantly contradicts herself more than the average CEO, says one thing, expects another then verbally bashes you (usually in front of a group) because it's not what she wants. I personally took a lot of big hits here because of immature management and the immature owner. Going into this job, I wasn't a 'delicate snowflake', I had some work experience prior. A lot of things that happened during my time at AdMed really hurt my confidence, work ethic, creativity, motivation, home life and even my professional interaction with people. Normally your job experience should be constructive and you should grow from it, but not at AdMed. I found it very hard to overcome this because you don't have support from your direct supervisor. They pull you down into a negative mindset and toxic culture that is so hard to overcome it’s actually scary. I was always a hard worker and would always get things done, stay late when needed, especially with the constant pressing deadlines or eleventh hour requests. Here, time after time your work won’t be good enough, you won’t get recognition, you won't be appreciated, you won’t get any perks and (at least in my case) no advancement, just minimal salary increases. Instead, you will get childish oppressive demands from the owner during meetings where she flails her arms talking about what she wants even though she is completely out of touch from the day-to-day operations. I am honestly not sure where all of these raving positive reviews are coming from and I really don't trust AdMed as a company to be honest about this either. There have been many circumstances where the CEO has showed unrealistic paranoia about her companies reputation and her employees. When people leave the company, she will specifically tell you that you "can't bash the company online." Why would you have to remind employees to do that if you are such a "great company to work for”? As I go back and read all of these negative reviews on here, I can’t believe how on-point they are and I wish I listened to them in the beginning. I really do hope you re-consider if you are looking to work here - shop around, this place should be LAST on your list because everyone deserves better.
