Probably up there as being the worst company I have ever worked for
Pros
- Everyone is about money and themselves. So at least you will find your interactions with individuals predictable.
Cons
- Upper management is not to be trusted. They care only for themselves. This is apparent when they give you their big "salesman" smile and fist bump. None of it is sincere - but they are good at making it appear that it is. So lots of people (mostly young) drink the Koolaid. - Twice I spoke to "C" level management in confidence. Two separate individuals. Both times that information was spread around the office. - They hire recovering drug/alcohol addicts to handle customer loan applications. Every 3rd person I met there was a recovering drug addict. Not sure if they intentionally hire these people by posting job recruitment ads in halfway homes, or if the hiring managers just have a bad judge of character. This is a bomb waiting to go off, due to the sensitivity of client information they handle. - The company makes a profit of off predatory lending practices. It's like payday loans for farming equipment. With zero federal regulation. It takes a certain type of individual who is ok with selling someone a loan they possibly would be unable to afford and be able to sleep that night. These are your co-workers. As long as your quota is met, am I right?! - The company only hires young inexperienced employees (for the most part). I think this is a control thing with upper management. As they attempt to solve issues by using cheap low-quality brute force labor. They find young adults out of college and burn them out. Once burned out they are replaced with other eager young adults. - Insurance benefits are horrific. HMO & HMO are your options. And not good HMO's. Also, they won't pay the entire coverage. - They don't pay for your parking. You're not valuable enough. So most people have to park on the street and walk several blocks to get to work. Only to be passed by the President in their S class Mercedes as your walking down the sidewalk. This is unless you spend 200$ monthly to park. - Blake the founder of the company walks into work wearing a $60,000 stainless steel watch into the office. This is a slap in the face for most people that work in the office 15hr days and mandatory weekends. That's a salesman's yearly salary on their wrist. Suprised there isn't more of a moral problem then there is. And there is for sure. Again, that's infinite parking for all employees forever. Also, they don't even have a coffee machine in the office. Priorities... Employees aren't one of them. But that's a nice watch! - Dress code is mandatory. Even when we have "casual" day Fridays, there's a dress code that isn't very casual. And as employees are reminded with constant "what is appropriate" emails. - For certain positions Currency flaunts a bigger cash paycheck vs their competitors. Which can be true for some, however, after paying for parking and covering the medical costs the HMO won't touch it turns out you're making less. - Being this is a company made up of primarily very young, cash-hungry, commissioned based sales people. The culture reflects as such. - Upper management equivocates showing up at the office at 5 am as being a hard-working employee. The CEO even sent a company-wide email of a picture he took of his watch and the people already working. The time on his watch read 5 am. He was very proud of his team. - Mangement creates unobtainable arbitrary deadlines for projects. Then seriously complains when the execution is done poorly. - Some of those deadlines are same day! From inception to delivery. Give me a break. That seems to be the way they like to run the organization. They think of something that has to be done right then and there and expect people to work 20 hrs that day to push something out. And push something out they do... - Palm Springs employee getaways! Sounds great! It felt like attending a timeshare seminar that includes adultery, stooping coworkers and fist fights at night after everyone gets drunk. I personally have witnessed all three. - More emphasis is placed around college than quality and work experience. Even if it's been 30 years since you last attended college, the college stories and relevancy of that college experience remains prevalent. Or if you are right out of college, your presumed to be better overall than someone who might have significantly more work experience out of the gate. That not fair to anyone. - The dress code requires every man to wear ties. Now if you're in sales, your allowed to not wear a tie if you meet a certain quota. I equivocate this to 40's Germany where you can judge someone from a far based on what they do or don't have on their clothes. At the end of the month round up everyone wearing a tie...
