Pros
Just to note - perks are via Live Nation & Ticketmaster, not directly from FGT. These perks include 2-4 tickets/year to a Live Nation concert of your choice. Though there may be additional access to tickets, you are not informed of the request result until 2 weeks or less before the show, making utilizing said tickets quite impossible. Company wide raffles for local concerts are offered at times as well. Depending on your department/position, there may be some travel. If you do work in a position which requires travel just know that you will very likely be traveling OFTEN, many say too often. This amount of travel was often times problematic for those with a family, home commitments, pets, etc. and employees were not part of the decision making process. Entry level employees have huge hearts and work their butts off. Great colleagues were the highlight of employment with FGT.
Cons
Management/Execs were disrespectful to staff on far too many occasions. Demeaning language, blatant disrespect for people's time, belittling attitude. A MASSIVE problem in my opinion. High level staff teaching that type of behavior makes for problems on every single level. -Nearly no opportunity for growth. -Practically nonexistent training and onboarding, making it very hard on new employees. -Very very little support via HR/internal avenues. HR not in office. -An extremely high rate of turnover for staff. This happens at lower/entry level positions more often of course, but 4 out of 8 executives left in the 1-2 years I was with the company. Red flags!! -If in a travel position, expect A LOT of travel, (over 1/2 year), Pro/Con depending on the person/life. -Daily communication was a problem. Decisions made effecting entire departments, but none of it communicated to employees. -Extremely reactive (and not proactive). This one paired with the communication issues meant day-to-day aggravation for many. -Quite cliquey. By department, by the CEO/COO's 'boys club', by tenure. Very little teambuilding. -Extremely slow to fill vacancies,. Unsure if filling them was even a concern for FGT. Executive level positions stayed open for far too long after the previous employee left. At the time I left, the COO was holding down his own position, plus 3-4 others, all of which were high level VP/Director positions that have been left open for 2 months - 1 year. -Conceptually, a very cool company. In reality...kind of a sh*tshow.
