Read the other less favorable reviews and you will see that many people have had less than stellar experiences with the company that are mostly attributable to the middle management. Regrettably this is no accident, and while some of those reviews detail perhaps some one-off situations, there are some consistent themes here that have not and probably will not change. The most prominent detractors are:
-Incompetent leadership immediately below the ownership and above the regional level. A number of people were promoted not because of their competence, but more likely because they are part of what can only be described as the "inner circle" of senior management.
-Bullying and scapegoating by the "inner circle" members is unchecked and rampant. If you are not a part of the club, you are dispensable when those same smiling folks who control your career development and overall fate at the company find themselves in hot water for a catastrophe of their own making. People routinely get thrown under the bus for the shortcomings of the dead wood.
-They do not fire bad employees, but instead move them around to other sites for someone else to deal with the firing or the messy cleanup. Often this results in what someone else should have dealt with long ago becoming a headache or career-ender for the recipient - take your pick. The bus will always be at your heels and ready to roll over you to cover the incompetence of others.
-They do not get rid of bad clients until it is too late. There is always a lot of talk about “we will talk to so and so and rein that person in...”. And it’s just that - talk - which is cheap. No action. They would rather burn through managers than give up making any money that might feed into the senior management bonus pool or their fancy leased cars. And for anyone aside from site management there are no bonuses.
-Contrary to what anyone may tell you, their business model is only about them. Not their clients. It is about putting their logos on everything and claiming it adds value for any number of nonsensical reasons. It is about a perpetual fashion show of pretty people and pretty pictures of them to make up for the skills gap.
-Lots or pressure to “drink the Kool-Aid”. But for what? The “Bozzuto Way” is nothing but a repetitive parroting of the phrase “customer service” and trying to just “nice” bad situations to death at the expense of the people that have to deal with them.
-Being nice to people is a great thing to incorporate into ones business model, but even a broken clock is right twice daily. They are a one trick pony act in that sense. It could be said that Bozzuto is a marketing company and nothing else, and sadly that is the reality anyone with real skills will realize over time. Because the truth is that they don’t really do anything special or well vs. their competitors.
-You will be expected to beg vendors to contribute to the annual awards dinner, which leaves you beholden to those same vendors. A company this big should either fund their own events or decide to just forgo them. It’s tacky, tasteless and cheap never mind possibly unethical in the eyes of some clients.
-There are conflicting agendas abound within the company. This directly feeds and encourages the bullying and catty behavior that one will presumably experience at all levels of the company aside from at the ownership level.
-Work-life balance is a joke. Try taking an uninterrupted vacation. It won’t happen! If you are capable and talented, then your “reward” over time is that you will be given more and more work and no one will care about your environment or workload until something blows up. The knives will be out and your life will be miserable as a result.
