I loved my job - Communications Associate Beyond, Inc. Employee Review

2.0
19 Feb 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the employees are great. You become friends easily with people and there's room for moving around in the company. Some positions have flexible hours.

Cons

There is extreme nepotism. The upper management hires their friends in the company or promotes them first. If one person doesn't like you, you will be fired quickly. They tend to keep the wrong people. If you suck up to the management and laugh at their jokes, you're more likely to stay even if you do no work. They don't mind drugs because they're so busy trying to be 'trendy' and 'hip' but I guess depending on how you look at it, that could be a good thing. Don't expect a raise. They always make up excuses to not giving one. I was there over a year, but since I changed departments, I wasn't eligible for a raise since I wasn't in that position for 6 months once they gave raises out. They baby the upper management. They say they want everyone to think outside of the box, but if you do, you will be fired. They are very strict in the way they work and don't like change. I was helping with a project once and the comms uppers said "this will be great for your portfolio when you leave the company or find a new job." Since I wasn't looking for a new job, I had a strange feeling that he probably meant when I get fired, which I was with no warning 2 weeks later. Don't offer to help with more than your job because they will scrutinize you and blame you for things that aren't your control and managers will throw you under the bus if the project you volunteered for doesn't work out.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Fast paced environment with LOTS of hands-on experience with many different tools. The people are the reason to stay, lots of smart and caring people, managers, and leaders towards the bottom of the food chain.

Cons

Upper Management has completely destroyed this company and gutted it. In my several years at the company, communication is as poor as it could be. Bonuses are promised and then not followed up on. RIFs happen far too frequently. It is abundantly clear that this company does NOT care about it's employees, and at the moment is almost seems like they are trying as hard as they can to get people to quit so they don't have to pay severances before acquiring more companies and moving headquarters to Texas. The culture in the days of Overstock was incredible, it made people excited about being able to work there. Now people are hanging on by threads, large teams are now carried on the backs of just 1-2 people without additional pay as we see co-workers get laid off left and right. It is not sustainable. Important things are being missed because there are not enough people to do the work, which will end up biting the company in the butt for compliance and finance reasons.

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