Very Toxic - DO NOT WORK HERE - SEO Analyst Social SEO Employee Review

1.0
6 Apr 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Several people I worked with were great, made a lot of friends that I still have after leaving.

Cons

Where to begin - they base their whole hiring process on finding young and impressionable hires that don't have experience working in a full-time position. This allows SSEO to take advantage of their employees and over work them. You'll see a lot of the fake 5-star reviews state that it's just a fast paced job. Having nearly 30 clients that you have to work on each week and talk to each week is not "fast paced" it's overwhelming. They shame people who speak out or say their mental health is in turmoil or that they are being overworked and would then mark you as a risk instead of actually having empathy and helping you out. Your job security is solely based on the money you bring in vs. if clients leave which 95% of the time is completely unavoidable. When a client leaves, your attrition goes up and your numbers are then posted on a large poster that everyone can see with your names and numbers ranked from best to worst numbers. This company is based on shame and fear. They tell you are your "family" and then make you sign a contract that means if you ever leave you cannot work in the same field or else they will sue you. They only care about the company and how much money you bring in and they are not shy about that fact. The "SEO" work you do is not quality work, and the clients pay insanely high prices that do not equate to the time and work you do because you're focusing on dozens of other clients. I left before the pandemic started so this is before they let half their staff go so those numbers are likely not as high, but you learn very basic skills. Just don't do it, don't work here. If you do, it's okay to leave. Your mental health is more important than this company.

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5.0
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Pros

fun office, dogs in office, beer carts, lots of information being shared between employees.

Cons

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3.0
12 Sept 2020
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Pros

Most of the people there are really great to work with and will go out of their way to help you. Initial training is great, you learn a lot and it's definitely a sink or swim culture which is also helpful in learning things quickly. The company is very good about promoting from within.

Cons

1. The owners do not follow their own team values. There is little to no trust in employees which is evidenced by very micromanaged procedures and policies meant to keep employees in line and can create a Big Brother-like feel to the office. 2. Most employees are very over-worked. This leads to very high employee attrition and can also lead to very high customer attrition. It certainly leads to worse results and care being given to clients. 3. Owners are the definition of insanity - they keep doing the same things over and over and seem surprised that things don't change/improve. Employees still feel underpaid and underrecognized and Account Managers still get annoyed when they are assigned a terrible client that should have never been sold. 4. Hardly anyone in Executive Management has any experience outside of this company so they don't have a great understanding of how to run a business properly. 5. Absolutely everyone is expendable to the owners.

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