Worst Employment Experience Ever - Anonymous employee BDA Employee Review

1.0
Dec 13, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not a lot, some nice hard working and undervalued people.

Cons

Company values are terrible, it is all about money. People are not valued, treated badly and often abused. Attitude from senior management is that everyone can be replaced with an untrained temp for a very low wage. Pay is low, benefits not good. It is much more about getting the owner on TV than actual real caring for people. People are promised many things, but they do not materialze, too many excuses. You can work 12 hours a day 7 days a week and it is never enough. Turnover is ridiculous, people often laid off, fired, escorted out or the employee just gets fed up and walks. BDA used to have something special, but somewhere along the way they lost it and with current senior management they will not ever find it again.

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Cons

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Pros

- Decent base salary if this is your first job out of University. - Free Swag - WFH Fridays - Smart and helpful colleagues

Cons

- Incredibly stressful, do NOT take this job if you do not have a high stress tolerance. - A ton of competing priorities that almost always require quick/immediate action. - You get a ton of emails and are expected to be able to pull up and reference any of them at a moments notice. - Constant whiplash between doing deep, focused work (presentation/catalogs) that have a ton of details and require your full attention versus quick/rapid fire tasks that you must address immediately. There were days where I was working on one presentation all day and couldn't get it done because of how much I was getting pinged to resolve other issues. - To get promoted you must essentially do the job of 2 people (CSC and PSA). Beyond that, there is no real career progression unless you want to go into sales. - Management always says to raise your hand if you need help. But when you ask for help, there is always pushback in the form of others having more task hours than you. - CEO took away one of the WFH days. When Qualtrics had negative feedback he essentially said "If you don't like it - then leave". He is a "Do as I say, not as I do." type of leader. - Workload and responsibilities are not commiserate to the salary.

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