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Mergers & acquisitions - Archivist & Illustrator Audio Visual Design Group Employee Review

5.0
Aug 24, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to work in an organization that values integrity, creativity, customer service & their employees as assets - essential to success, AVDG typically embraces all of these organizational principles. If you want to work with people who value perseverance, customer as principal asset & a positive outlook, AVDG is a firm where you'll find them. As a former contractor/consultant, my customer’s satisfaction is always my first priority. Now as a permanent employee of AVDG, this includes serving my manager as well as those people who we are privileged to call our customers. I sense that my managers value my devotion to service, abilities & talents. I appreciate the daily support that they give their employees. They actually listen to ideas for improvements & are extremely responsive.

Cons

AVDG is experiencing some changes due to rapid growth due to mergers & acquisitions. As a former consultant, I've seen my share of dot coms, startups as well as wild fluctuations in revenue streams within established businesses that business leaders must surmount. Some employees have trouble adapting to these disruptions, as I've noticed in the negative reviews given here in these AVDG ratings. I think that it takes some sand to succeed in the workforce in the twenty first century. You have to be resilient & expect constant change, as business leaders and their workers. Global competition coupled with billions of willing human replacements to take your place create striking instability. If you spend less time complaining & more time doing your job, things tend to work out just fine...

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5.0
Apr 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Awesome place to work. Highly recommended

Cons

No negative things to add at this time

2.0
Apr 29, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of exposure to various technology, fast paced environment, never a dull day. Excellent perks and benefits. Lots of great people in offices and across all departments and middle management. operational teams are generally cohesive, and all dedicated to getting the job done.

Cons

This is a Guitar Center Brand - not the same AVDG it used to be. GC Corp, and AVDG have a history of being at odds with each other and IT teams for AVDG are a frayed rope in a tug of war as to how to differentiate IT needs for a service provider type of business versus a giant retailer. Very top down oriented, "just do as you are told" mentality regardless of practicality or impacts to operations. Lots of focus on DEI, yet released DEI Director. Constant layoffs despite Executive leadership painting a rosy financial picture. Participating in the push to reduce salaries on high expectation jobs with sky high demands, Very meeting heavy on management team leading to working excessive hours to stay on top of projects and support requests. IT Team was small, but faced high demand for support Despite metrics showing team was overloadedvacated positions were not replaced. Zero transparency from GC Corp or Execs. multiple rounds of layoffs despite executive leaders stating aftre each round that it was the last wave. Manager bonuses cut despite excellent APR scores. Efforts to improve IT operations usually shot down creating mass inefficiencies in support flows. IT staff had been shrunk to 1 individual to support company with coast-to-coast presence, and high maintenance staff. Many managers like to point fingers or blame available technology for their own failings or inefficiency, complete lack of accountability.

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