Used to be great - Sales BrainStation Employee Review

First, be aware of the reviews left by Teaching Assistants as they have a very different experience from the permanent employees. BrainStation leadership has unfortunately ruined what used to be a great company to work for. The biggest example of this is the extremely high turnover. Since a certain VP arrived a year ago, the sales team has seen nearly 100% of people leave. This should be a major red flag to anyone considering BrainStation. Seriously, try to find someone that isn't in leadership and is still there after 2 years. Turnover in other departments is unusually high as well and unfortunately, the Konrad and BrainStation leadership don't care (it seems like they actually plan for it). They would rather cycle through eager new grads so they can overwork them in repetitive roles with no opportunity for growth, then watch them leave once they get frustrated enough. They will then post fake reviews or ask eager new hires to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor so they can repeat this plan instead of actually improving. Overall, leadership is a joke and the employees end up suffering. All the leaders are good friends so they don't hold each other accountable and they just reinforce each other's poor management. It's hard to see things changing with the current leadership in place. Due to this, the culture at BrainStation is horrible. Teams are siloed and don't try to support each other in any way, Diversity and BIPOC initiatives don't exist (and it shows), and transparency is a foreign concept here. If you plan to work at BrainStation, get used to reading between the lines and playing politics to advance. I've seen management actively make the jobs more difficult for those they don't like and set them up for failure so they can fire them eventually. All that being said, if you are a new grad who is desperate for a job, this is a decent place to break into tech if you need to. Just don't plan to stay longer than 1.5 years and don't join if you aren't a new grad. Even if your title changes through a promotion, your actual role will stay the same so your career growth will stall. There is a reason you will never find BrainStation or Konrad on any "Great Place to Work" or "Top Companies" lists. For context, this review is not from someone who was let go or underperformed at BrainStation - in fact, I really enjoyed working there at one point.