Cyberactive Reviews

Posting for Marketing and Sales position was so misleading. The "team" I was supposed to oversee just consisted of myself. Lots of "market development" with direction given occasionally. Culture within office was strange and uncomfortable. Other employees were around but worked for another company so I was pretty separate. Finally they hired someone to help me and she quit after her first day. Don't blame her. What a joke. Don't bother, the culture alone is enough to make you want to head for the hills.

- The other management is not on top of the work processes. The project leads have no project management ability of note, and very limited understanding of the scope for any of the web-based projects that are requested. - They're not competitive with their pay. If you find a job ad from them listing a certain salary "Depending on Experience", be prepared to get 10-15k less than that after they offer you the position regardless of how impressive your resume is. Once you start working there, you'll have to spend the first year or two working to reach the salary that was initially listed on the ad. - Because of the company's lack of understanding of how to pay competitively in a web development/technology field in Los Angeles, you will always be working with sub-par developers and creative teams who are contracted overseas. - There is no medical/dental, no 401k, and you will have to work 45 hours per week to receive your full salary. If you want to work a standard 40-hour work week, your pay will be cut. - There is no formal QA process, and the management constantly has to be reminded what step of the development process comes next (Example: website creative comps will be sent off to HTML without being approved, business requirements and use-case documents won't even be reviewed before development occurs). - Everything is heavily monitored. Every keystroke of your keyboard is recorded. All of your phone calls are recorded. You are videotaped 24/7. Your 30-minute lunch break is very closely monitored through clocking in and out with a thumbprint scan. - Communication is lacking. No one ever has any idea what anyone else is doing. There are no regular status meetings and no hot sheets or project lists. Most employees have no experience in a web-development field or with anything technology-related and just follow what they're told to do. - No formal training is ever provided. You will be given work that is not in your initial job description and not within your work experience, and you will be expected to learn it on your own. This is not necessarily because they don't want to take the time to train you. It's because no one who works there will have the right knowledge to train you properly. You will not get paid extra for this work, even if you ask.