Poorly Run Company with Unprofessional Leaders - Program Manager BDA Employee Review

2.0
25 Feb 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Helpful co-workers, free parking, good location if you live in the area. 4:00 on Fridays, you can engage in cheap wine or beer with a few other co-workers. Occasional work from home days. My immediate manager was pleasant and helpful, but upper management was a joke.

Cons

Let's start with the owners/founders. They were teenagers when they launched this company 30+ years ago and still act like it. Much like fraternity boys, but they never went to college and it shows. They get up in front of the company, drinking and swearing, make racial slurs, bash their heritage and expect everyone to think they are funny. There were even stories of sexual harassment floating around the buildings. Systems are old and archaic, and they do not work with each other, so complete a process takes several steps and several people. You are always waiting on someone...the buyer, analyst, tech, email marketing, etc... Pay is terrible. They outright lie to clients, over promise the impossible and expect you to back them up. They call it "smoke and mirrors", but it's just plain dishonesty. If you travel for the company, you have to pay for everything up front, on your own credit or debit card and they will reimburse you the next month. This is terrible if you are on a budget and watching finances. Some expenses for a multi-day trip can cost a couple thousand with hotel, meals and transportation. They will not issue you a corporate card unless you travel excessively. Minimal options for lunch onsite unless you want to eat from pre-made foods or snack foods.

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BDA Response
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Your review brings up multiple concerning items that we would like to have addressed in person. BDA doesn’t tolerate harassment of any kind and we encourage anyone who has felt uncomfortable to speak to HR directly.

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Cons

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- Decent base salary if this is your first job out of University. - Free Swag - WFH Fridays - Smart and helpful colleagues

Cons

- Incredibly stressful, do NOT take this job if you do not have a high stress tolerance. - A ton of competing priorities that almost always require quick/immediate action. - You get a ton of emails and are expected to be able to pull up and reference any of them at a moments notice. - Constant whiplash between doing deep, focused work (presentation/catalogs) that have a ton of details and require your full attention versus quick/rapid fire tasks that you must address immediately. There were days where I was working on one presentation all day and couldn't get it done because of how much I was getting pinged to resolve other issues. - To get promoted you must essentially do the job of 2 people (CSC and PSA). Beyond that, there is no real career progression unless you want to go into sales. - Management always says to raise your hand if you need help. But when you ask for help, there is always pushback in the form of others having more task hours than you. - CEO took away one of the WFH days. When Qualtrics had negative feedback he essentially said "If you don't like it - then leave". He is a "Do as I say, not as I do." type of leader. - Workload and responsibilities are not commiserate to the salary.

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