My issue with Lifted Logic is this. In that same meeting, the leadership team heard all of these new employees say that they loved "the people". I suspect that the company leaders heard this and felt a sense of pride and warmth as they thought the employees were referring to them. This isn't true. The employees at Lifted Logic love working with each other. They almost universally despise working under the CEO, COO, and most of the rest of the company leaders and directors. They are unpredictable, unreliable, and riddled with personal foibles and insecurities that make them stressful to talk to for even a moment, much less rely upon in a professional way. Yet in their minds, they take the credit for being likeable colleagues and leaders who inspire their employees, and in doing so they don't appreciate at all the people that actually make Lifted Logic bearable.
If you are fast and can produce halfway-decent quality work, you can succeed at Lifted Logic. No one will expect greatness from you. But you will have to figure out how to do it yourself. There is essentially no job training for most positions that I've heard about. There is some freedom associated with this, but it also creates a set of constantly moving goalposts as your directors are frequently changing what is expected of you-and even changing your core job processes.
You see, the leaders at Lifted Logic are aware, on some abstract level, that something is wrong. Constant turnover, frequent morale issues, and poor quality work plague this company. It seems like the leaders are constantly trying to shake things up and reinvent processes to "fix" Lifted Logic. They will change workflows, add duties, and even physically move employee workstations around to try and improve things. But of course, none of these things are the real issues. Poor pay and benefits, no training, and essentially no career advancement potential is what keeps Lifted Logic from being successful.
On the subject of turnover, it is frankly bizarre how clueless the company is about how to retain employees. In fact, after seeing multiple talented employees leave the company for much better opportunities, I wonder if Lifted Logic WANTS to employ new, unskilled employees to keep paychecks lower. I would argue this is misguided, however. Why constantly be hiring new employees that don't know what they're doing rather than keeping the skilled people that actually have talent? If Lifted Logic tried to compete with other agencies in terms of pay and benefits, they could actually grow their team's skills and maybe even produce better work. But it's not like that's what every other company that's ever existed has done, I'm sure the Lifted Logic Way (TM) is better /s. I know employees that have worked for the company for multiple years and have never received a raise, not even a cost-of-living adjustment. If you don't get a cost-of-living adjustment every year, your salary is effectively going down as inflation goes up. This has always seemed obvious to me, but it's apparently too much for the leaders at Lifted Logic to understand. Give your employees a reason to care and something to work for, and they will be more productive, more loyal, and happier, too. But what do I know, I guess. I didn't create a soulless content farm like Lifted Logic, so they definitely don't care about my opinion.
That does bring me to the actual work that Lifted Logic does, however. If you look at the "Case Studies" section on the Lifted Logic website, you will see a variety of projects that look like they would be really fun to work on; Cooper's Cask Coffee, the Kansas City Ballet, some winery. And these projects are fun to do, and they are real projects that Lifted Logic did. But this isn't the full story.
You see, probably... 80% or so of the projects Lifted Logic takes on are med spas. If you, dear reader, are anything like me when I was first researching working at Lifted Logic, you might have no idea what a med spa is. Let me help. A med spa is a business that specializes in "aesthetic care" and often "wellness services" as well. Many of them purport to be medical practices focused on improving their clients' health and well-being. This is all garbage. Med spas are predatory charlatans that prey on people's physical insecurities to convince them that they need Botox. And at Lifted Logic, YOU will be primarily responsible for perpetuating this goal for countless med spas across the country. Oh, sure, none of them SAY that's what they're trying to do, but at the end of the day, your responsibility at Lifted Logic is to convince desperate women online that they need to drop everything and go get some made-up procedure with "results" that last for 3 months at best. And don't even get me started on the deluge of vitamin shots, IV drips, PDO threads, and whatever the heck "Exo-Mind" is that you'll also have to shill for as an employee at Lifted Logic.
Now obviously there is a market for these services somewhere out there, and if you have a fascination with these things and you happen to have a marketable skill that Lifted Logic wants, maybe you'd love working with this garbage. But for me and every single person I've ever talked to at the company, it will sap your spirit over time. I thought I wouldn't really care about doing that kind of stuff at first, but sure enough, there is only so much I could handle before it was really, like, weighing on my conscience. Take that as you will, but if you work at Lifted Logic, you WILL be working for med spas primarily.
Now obviously I've written the next great American novel here about how much everything at Lifted Logic sucks, but despite all that, Lifted Logic can have some value for you. IF you are looking to get some early career experience, Lifted Logic is a real company (technically) that WILL hire you. Present well, come across like a cool person, and they'll hire you. They really aren't picky (really...), so you can get hired for sure. Especially if you're a cute, young-looking blonde girl (the CEO has a type). Once you're hired, though? Work there for a year or so, get some experience that looks good on a resume that you can talk about in a job interview, and then just go find a real job to start your career. That's what it seems like everyone else does.
