Active Network Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Culture and promotion of work life balance.

Cons

Poor product management making it difficult to sell products not ready for the market. Quotas have not been adjusted post COVID. Internal project Lead times and Legal review process for contracts takes an unheard of amount of time.

Pros

They great work life balance

Cons

bad compensation for sales unless you had a good territory

Pros

no over time working. good work life balance.

Cons

very limited room of career growth. Relative low in pay comparing to other companies in Xi'an

Pros

Good work life balance. Great paid vacation package. Medical/ dental benefits comparable to other large companies. Strong managemt. Company employs many intelligent and hard working individuals.

Cons

Majority of the C levels (especially CEO- Darko Dejanovic) have a very poor attitude, use fear tatics, show little emotion toward employees or customers. Hours can be long, especially for management. Targets/quotas are often unrelastic and management takes a strong attitude regarding the need to "do it all" rather than properly focusing on one major task and doing a great job on it. CEO has a "what's in it for me " attitude and does little to support or give back to employees thru recognition or pay for performance increases. All eyes are on new HQ location in Texas and many other offices or employees are being shut down/laid off. They hire young employees so they can underpay. Salary increases or promotions are hard to come across.

Pros

flexible, work-life balance, people are kind here

Cons

management chaos, bad revenue, don't have much room for growth

Pros

The young culture and atmosphere is great and I thoroughly enjoyed all of my coworkers and the bond we shared. They have a multitude of options on the 25th floor to promote work/life balance (table-pong, basketball, etc)

Cons

Management is terrible. They only care about meeting said "metrics." Everyone employee is simply a number and doesn't truly exist as a human being. There were so many individuals who would've been amazing in greater roles/ capacities, but Active Network implemented a "must work current position for 1 year AND THEN your manager must sign off that you are eligible for different positions. It was complete BS to say the least. So as you can image, they lost a boat load of employees due to this ridiculous requirement of jumping through hoops, myself included. I left after being there a little over a year, only to be in upper management (what I tried to achieve while there) and obtain a 40% increase in salary. Too bad Active couldn't see talent when it was there. I almost witnessed a massive company layoff on Friday, August 28th 2015 of over 200 employees. Many of whom were hard working individuals, top performers, and some who had recently moved there families to Dallas from San Diego and were let go shortly thereafter. Seeing something such as this really opens your eyes to the type of company you work for. I knew then it was time to exit stage left.

Pros

Was once a great company to work for, great culture encouraging employees to walk the talk and live healthy active lifestyles. Compensation / Benefits were average. Culture and work life balance were above average. ActiveX program encouraged the team to be passionate about what we do, and lots of employees worked harder than execs ever realized. At an executive level, we trusted execs, they were honest and inspirational, although they completed several ill-planned acquisitions. Politics were non existent - until the MONSTERS came...

Cons

The executives that have come over from Monster.com are arguably the worst executive leadership team at any company ever in the history (or future) of mankind. They are destroying the company from the inside. Where previous executive leadership motivated by inspiring and developing a passion for our products and services, current executives are highly political and motivate people purely through fear of losing your job. Not from Monster.com? Then you are treated as a second-class employee, not smart enough to make decisions or offer suggestions. Executive team under Darko is not trusted. Employees openly laugh at them during company talks. The uncertainty over moving the company to Texas, combined with the certainty of moving all software development to China, combined with the lack of trust in executive leadership, has resulted in an exodus of talented individuals across the company.

Pros

ACTIVE is a great company to work for - providing you are willing to roll with it. Leadership at ACTIVE is great (at least for the direct leadership that I work with); they can be intimidating - but as long as you believe in yourself, and work hard the intimidation becomes motivation. ACTIVE benefits are good; not the greatest, but are good. ACTIVE PTO is great. Work / life balance is also great. Realistically, work life balance is what you make it. There are always new challenges to face and new opportunties knocking at your door. We work hard to play hard and live up to that mentality on a daily basis. Employees are recognized for hard work and dedication on a regular basis and are always looked at for promotion prior to a position being opened up.

Cons

The only real con that I would have about ACTIVE as a whole, is that other offices are not held is as high regard as Dallas, TX (head quarters). Working with leaerhsip in Dallas when you are settled in another office is great. They are very responsive - however, sometimes great employees get overlooked because they are not located in headquarters.

Pros

Prior to Vista buying this company, this was a great environment with mutual respect- the employees worked hard for the old leadership team, and the leaders cared about the people. The workers represented what the company stood for ..."making the world a more Active place." Now- it's WORK, WORK, WORK. No work/life balance and lots of folks completely stressed to the max. The only thing missing is a whip ....

Cons

It's ALL CONS now at Active. There are very few people left with knowledge on how this business runs. Since hundreds of employees have left- all of the knowledge has left with them. No one knows processes, procedures, customers, etc. It's just work, work, work. Figure it out- and hit your quota. If not- YOU ARE OUT. No managers or leaders take the time to know the people. They don't care.

Pros

Active was a great place with great culture and work life balance. The people were the best part of working there. They were all very smart and cared about the team and their co-workers personally and professionally. I have made life long friends working there.

Cons

Projects are rushed in order to collect revenue most of the time products are not ready for production or tested adequately before they roll. It then becomes a PR campaign to keep clients happy and always over promising and under delivering. Support teams get trained last minute and they aren't told of know issues until they discover them from angry customers. Not enough resource to get all the work done that is on their plate, simple solution, hire more people instead of asking one person to do the job of three.