You will not do the work you were hired for in your job offer. You will not be paid commission on a regular basis and they will make every excuse as to why you’re not getting paid your commission. Sometimes you won’t even be paid your regular salary on pay day or several days after.
The company gives you no resources to do your job well. No SOPs, no documentation, everyone does things differently and there is zero organization or structure at the company whatsoever.
The boss, who micromanages both work and customer communication and doesn’t want decisions made without her approval will leave on trips every month or so for days at a time after starting projects with tight deadlines and handing them to you with no context or notes and then will blame you for them going wrong.
You will regularly witness the boss talk poorly about employees and vendors both behind their backs and directly to them.
Pay is salary but you are treated like an hourly employee. You have to keep track of your time, even if you finish all tasks for the day, you are still expected to work. You are expected to take PTO for days partially worked. They have no problem with making you work 10-11 hour days if needed but will lose it if you finish your work in 6-7 hours you will be reprimanded.
The lack of respect for your time is honestly mind blowing sometimes. She will request to have meetings with you or vendors and be 15-20 minutes late regularly without notice. When she does give you notice, she will push the meeting back over an hour total but in 15-20 minute increments so you are just sitting in calls waiting for her. If you have plans going on outside of work hours, there will be issues with the owner about it being problematic for the company.
If you have to travel for trade shows, good luck. Flights and accommodations are not made usually until a few days before the shows and there is no amount of communication or follow ups that will help. Return flights are also usually booked day of or day before flying back. It is extremely difficult to plan for travelers not because sometimes you won’t be notified until a few days prior to you needing to fly out.
In regards to comments from Specworks about previous reviews and that the owner has stepped down and has had another person filling in for her role, it’s simply untrue. It is still Corina at the head of things and trying to shift blame away from herself.
This company is so hard to put effort into. The lack of resources, structure, and ability to work without being told you have to keep margins 20% lower than industry average or having to get all approvals through the owner for orders and not getting responses from her for days on end until they become emergencies or even being made to stay up until or wake up at 3 am to work on a project for a client in Europe that she started really killed what motivation I did have while working there. There is little to no benefit to you at all for the required extra work and hours.
Overall, maybe 2/10 experience. If you are serious about working in the industry but also serious about boundaries and having your time respected, this is not the place for you. There is no accountability from the company for issues that have been the regular for years, any advise or requests to iron out easily fixed issues are ignored.
As the title says, maybe don’t apply.
