Pros
Free food Occasional remote work from home
Cons
Fierce is ruining lives. They are always firing people. They teach transparency, but constantly lie to employees. When someone gets fired, the leadership team gossips about those people, when they leave. Leaders will coax multiple employees to spy on each other, and help them build cases against each other. Morals do not exist either. Dating is allowed, and that's also a good form of job security. There is no inclusion, and the owner could care less, as she invites select people to her house, right in front of other employees. Calls are recorded, like you're a child. There isn't any structure, real management or training at all. Employees take on "projects" in addition to their full workload, to get things done. If you need any guidance or direction, you're told to go beg everyone, but who you report to, for help. The owner is mean, disrespectful and unprofessional. Outside of her few favorites, or the men she openly makes passes at, she talks to people like dirt. Extremely short staffed departments cause multiple delays at times. Content literally has to be memorized, verses any level of creativity being allowed. The company is flat broke, to the point that they don't even sell the book written by the owner. They say the loudest in the room isn't always the one who's heard, but narcissistic people have leadership roles, and they constantly overtalk everyone in meetings. Speaking of meetings, they have several a week, with no real purpose. It's a high school click environment full of immaturity and minimal experience. You will be recruited and pulled away from a stable career, told you're being connected with multiple employers, then only pushed to take an offer with Fierce. There's an excessive amount of micromanagement, and favortism with the unlimited PTO. Some people can come in extremely late, take weeks off and never hit their quotas, while others are constantly threatened. This is a horrible place to work! Do not believe the fake reviews either, since leadership wrote them, and they even tried to find out who wrote the negative reviews. Every problem from the past is blamed on the ex CEO, who is the owner's daughter. Her name and reputation are dragged in the mud daily, along with other former employees who didn't even have performance issues. They have an excessively high turnover rate, but always tell stories about former employees, instead of taking any accountability. Instead of admitting the company is cutting costs and hurting for money, they go on firing sprees. The quotas are virtually impossible for most to reach. The leadership team is always whispering, which is beyond unprofessional. Whenever there's a Best Place to Work survey, they try to force employees to rate Fierce with top scores and internal surveys require a person's name being disclosed. There's no privacy or protection either, since there's no HR department. If the employee gives a low survey score, they're retaliated against. When you are allowed to work remote, there is no trust. They'll do things like IM or email you 5 minutes before you're finishing the day, just to catch you not working. Many employees like Friday as a day to work remote, so they'll set up mandatory meetings on that day, just because. Benefits are horrible, and they do not pay for your cell phone, which they claim you don't need to use. However, to be successful, that's impossible! The CEO is constantly crossing the line with political party emails, and requests to support charities of her choice. While people were buried in floods in Houston, she tried to force everyone to adopt pets. Everyone has their preferences, and if you don't like pets, she'll attack you about it. One day, she unleashed 3 of her dogs in the office, clearly violating building policy, and showing no consideration for people who have either been bit or have fears of dogs. If you didn't run to pet them, she confronted you. They preach diversity, but immediately stopped the office contest for a certain tv show, when the main star became a woman of color, making the excuse that the show was officially boring. If you pull up any keynote the owner has done on diversity and inclusion, all she does is pull some unrelated content from the book, and actually speak against mandated corporate diversity programs. The current public face of leadership is a group of friends who are not qualified, and oust people they simply do not like. None of them have real, concrete experience and it shows!
