'We're a Family' ... with all the drama. - Anonymous employee PhotoBiz Employee Review

2.0
16 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The office itself is very nice, nice open floorplan and ping pong tables in the spacious downstairs kitchen. On the whole your fellow employees will be good friendly people. They like to celebrate a lot, so there is lots of pizza, cake and donuts, if you enjoy that. Good resume builder, if you need it. Just don't stick around too long and you'll likely escape unscathed.

Cons

Pay scale is not industry competitive unless you're hired directly into one of the top positions. Job position and responsibility can and will be changed without notice to or input from the employee. Both owners are very prone to micromanagement and a inability to delegate responsibility. In particular, the owner responsible for the business management side is rarely in the office, on average 3 days a week for less than 5 hours a day. It can be very hard to get projects and tasks moved forward for lack of, very much required, executive approval but, any delays are always the fault of the employee. Any mention of inaccessibility of or inability to obtain a concrete decisions from management is angrily dismissed. Get all your instructions written or confirmed via email because recollection is subject to change, very CYA environment. Don't expect any input that isn't directly in line with management's to be heard or even appreciated, nodding heads encouraged. Speaking to the review title, they like to claim a 'Family Environment' which is really an excuse to play favorites and treat their employees like misbehaving children when they are unhappy. Displeasure on the part of management is often conveyed with condescension and downright insults, rather than productive criticism. It is a painfully unprofessional management environment.

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5.0
17 Nov 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I love to work with the creative teams at PhotoBiz always trying to be ahead of the technology .

Cons

Everyone is so busy sometimes it seems like we are in a race.

2.0
27 Jul 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The people here are awesome, and come from all walks of life. You are truly able to engage and make friends with everyone there. Your co-workers also care about you which is nice. As long as you do your job, and help others you will be well respected. You also have the ability to work with many different programs, and software that make you extremely diverse for your future career. Take advantage of every opportunity and even if there is no extra pay, it will pay dividends on your resume. While a lot of the cons and negative things below sound bad, if the company does improve on these huge core problems this place could be one of the best places to work.

Cons

The pay, it is terrible and below industry standard. They do not pay the hardest working employees what they deserve while paying others who do less a lot more money. They do not give raises and reviews are far and few between. The upstairs work group has no idea how hard the support team works and the CEO is in the office for 5-10 hours a week yet wants to control everything. This creates bad morale among the strongest and hardest working team.

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