IntelliShop Reviews

3.1

50% would recommend to a friend

(35 total reviews)
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Ron Welty

68% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

IntelliShop has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 35 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IntelliShop employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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35 reviews
1.0
21 May 2017

Beware

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The industry is unique and fascinating - mystery shopping. It's a great way for companies to get an unbiased representation of the quality of their goods/services and use that as a tool for decision making.

Cons

The owner. Awful. He actually believes his employees cower to him because they are in awe of their "King". In reality, they avoid interacting with him because it becomes exhausting to constantly stroke his ego. He's an angry bully who likes to use his position to make himself feel like he's a rock star. Most every other employee there is awesome (with maybe the exception of one who is his mini me and loves the drama she can create by feeding into the owner's paranoia and ego). He's extremely disliked by most everyone, but is too delusional and narcissistic to realize it.

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IntelliShop Response
8y
We are sorry you had a negative experience working for our company. The majority of our employees have been with our company for many years ,they love the people and the clients they work with.
1.0
24 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There isn't one good thing I can say about the company. My advice is to avoid this place at all costs.

Cons

This company is by far the most poorly run business I have ever seen. The Owner/CEO is completely clueless about how to run a successful business, as is management. The incompetent managers have complete immunity, while overqualified, hardworking employees are constantly bullied into leaving, or fired for bogus reasons. The culture is nothing short of high school all over again, with cliques who bully anyone who doesn't fit in. College graduates are sought for positions that require less than a high school education, and are not even properly compensated for having that college degree. Meanwhile, incompetent managers are paid exorbitant salaries, and the owner gets a new, very expensive vehicle every other year, while the employees who actually run the company are barely scraping by. Then, when those employees earn a significant bonus for doing a great job, they are cheated out of the money they rightfully earned, and generally given some BS excuse as to why they're not receiving the money they earned. Also, no matter what you are told, there is absolutely no room for advancement. If the turnover rate is any indication, (almost 90% of the full time employees have quit or have been fired in the past couple years), this company won't be around much longer, especially if it continues to treat its quality employees as disposable.

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IntelliShop Response
10y
This posting was brought to my attention, and because of the un-truths in here that do a major disservice to the many great people on our team, I feel compelled to reply; I am the owner of IntelliShop. If this was in fact posted by someone who used to work with us, I am very sorry they feel this way. Regardless of whether they resigned or were asked to leave, we certainly don’t want anyone to have such an experience here. I founded IntelliShop in 1999 because I was frustrated with the company I worked for at the time, and I vowed that if I was ever fortunate enough to have my own company, I would do everything I could to create a great place to work. I have honored that, and I believe we are truly a great place to work. A recent industry survey ranked us as the 3rd-largest company in our industry, and that’s nice to know, but we care much more about being great for our clients and team members, versus “big”, and are always seeking to improve in everything we do. We certainly wouldn’t have lasted 16+ years in a highly competitive industry, and been fortunate to grow as we have, if we treated people like this person claims. Of our 31 full-time team members, 20 of them (65%!) have received at least one internal promotion since they started with us, including one just last week; some have earned multiple promotions. I’m really proud of that, and nothing makes me happier as the owner than being able to see and help our people grow along with us. The comments about bonuses and “cheating” people out of money are a flat-out lie. We have never done such things. In fact, in addition to what we are told by our team members is an exceptional benefits program, for several years now we have paid between 15-18% of our pre-tax profit to our employees in profit-sharing checks; I challenge any other company to match that level (Ford recently announced theirs, and it was around 6%). If this person did work for us, and didn’t receive a bonus, then it was for performance-related issues and it would have been explained to them, privately, along with a plan to get them on-track. Again, some of the happiest days I have as the owner are when we award profit-sharing checks, which we do 3x/year. For anyone reading these postings and considering whether we would be a good place to work, I invite you to come visit us. I will meet with you personally, and our entire team will be available to talk with, so you can hear first-hand what it’s like to work at IntelliShop. We are a great place to work, we value and take great care of our team, and we always seek ways to do even better.
5.0
4 Apr 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have been with Intellishop for three years now and have not had any bad experiences. I have been paid for ALL shops performed except one, which was due to an error on my part. As long as you read the directions you will be paid. You have the choice to accept a shop or not. If you read the guidelines and do not like what you are asked to do, then simply deny the shop. Some months I do 5-6 shops, some months I do one. It is completely up to me. Anytime I have had an issue, I simply commented to the assigner on the shop and have always been replied to within 12-24 hours,

Cons

I do wish payout was a bit more timely, but I was informed at the very beginning that payment is once a month, on the 20th of the FOLLOWING month. So if you perform a shop on April 1st, you are not paid for it until May 20th. With multiple reviewers, I do sometimes get mixed messages on what the questionnaire asked. For one shop I will get a 10/10 score, then an 8/10 score when doing the same shop a month later. So even though I feel I answered the same questions with very similar answers, because I do not have the same reviewer, I am not scored the same.

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