Not a healthy environment to work in - Anonymous employee Forever Employee Review

2.0
11 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary is fair and benefit package is very good for a small company. The offices are very nice and in a great location downtown. The salespeople in the field are passionate, driven and a loyal group that voices their opinion loudly for the benefit of the customers. The product concept is good and relevant to the times as right now people more than ever are losing photos to hard drive crashes and phone back up failures.

Cons

The CEO is a very skilled salesperson and will spin any situation into something that puts him and his company into the most favorable light. One might think that is a good thing but I can assure it is not. He will share numbers out of context to make things appear as if there is an increase but if you compare his words to the slides he shows they are very often representing different things. He removes anyone from the company that does not agree with him. If you look at the staff over the last three to four years you will see only a handful of the same people. Long hours including holidays and weekends are expected and you if you don't work while on vacation you can be sure it will negatively impact his perception of your work ethic. The management team is fearful and not does stand up for what is right because most know they will lose their job if they do not remain yes men/women.

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5.0
24 Apr 2024
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Pros

Lots of opportunities. Flexible management structure. Ability to move between departments.

Cons

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2.0
16 Nov 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I negotiated a decent salary and, at the time, the team that worked there was great.

Cons

This company has failed. In three years the company has failed to garner a solid user base. Rather than admit that there is no market for the product, the CEO purchased a business with a larger customer-base and rolled them into Forever to bolster the quarterly numbers. Once that showed signs of struggling, rather than traditional marketing, he pushed a move to Multi-Level Marketing. Make no mistake, Forever is a Pyramid scheme. Having worked first hand on the technology, the claim of Forever as 'permanent' photo storage is dubious. The direction the Engineering team is headed, it won't be long until things fall apart. The decisions about the technology that support the Forever guarantee are decided between a CEO at the top who is clueless about tech, and an ego-inflated tech lead who has no real-world experience in building the kind of applications that can support such an endeavor. Anyone interested in working there needs to know that nearly every engineer that is working there today was not there 6 months ago. The turnover rate is atrocious because on the surface Forever looks so great and has a great vision, but from the inside it is one of the most poorly run companies I have EVER worked for. The problems start at the top with the CEO, who has gotten as far as he has by talking, not delivering.

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