Advantive (FL) Reviews

Since our company was acquired by this so-called "private equity-backed" group, everything has gone downhill - fast. Half the staff was unceremoniously fired, and those of us who remained were expected to carry double the workload without additional support or consideration. Teams were gutted, morale plummeted, and chaos became the new normal. Tasks are now assigned without any regard to people's actual expertise - because there’s simply no one left. It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck, where leadership’s main concern is obsessing over pointless 15Five check-ins and endless, unproductive meetings, rather than solving real problems or supporting customers. The company is painfully disorganized. Priorities shift weekly. Direction is nonexistent. And the few people trying to hold things together are burning out while leadership pretends everything is fine. Worst of all, customers - the people who actually keep the business alive - are being neglected. Support tickets go unanswered for months. Many clients are churning, furious, or simply refusing to pay. Who can blame them? It’s astonishing that this private equity firm thinks this is a sustainable model: acquire companies, fire talent, mismanage what's left, and squeeze it dry. It's not just employees who suffer - it's the customers too. This is how you run a business into the ground.

It's the most toxic environment I could ever imagine. The leadership is horrible, and behind the scenes, they are the antithesis of the values they claim to hold. They love to do what they call "high potential" hiring, which means they bring in employees who may not have all the experience or skills needed for the role but have "high potential." To be clear, they are doing this to pay you way under market value for the work and the position they hire you into while working you into burnout in record time. They do not care about your development, advancement, career, etc. Expect to be on call for leadership on nights, weekends, holidays, vacations, etc. There is also no lack of blatant favoritism and mild sexism. Hiring and promoting predominately white men when your executive team is almost exclusively white men is what they really excel in. Giving bonuses and promotions to male counterparts when they have not done anywhere near the same amount of work or have the same professional experience and expertise as their female peers happens regularly. My tips on topics to touch on during your interview here are: - Ask about diversity and inclusion, ask in every one of your interviews (it doesn't exist) - Ask how they treat and handle their performance review and merit increase process, along with any bonus potential - Ask what the expectations are regarding hours, work time, travel, days in the office, etc. - Ask what resources or programs they have for employee development, clearly ask which one of those resources or programs would you have access to