Pros
There’s a willingness to try new things and allow for employees to attempt to take a project from concept into reality. The worker bees are pleasant people who are often looking to work with people in a team environment to help shape their thinking and align as a group. The kitchen snacks are fairly decent and well stocked. Employees do a great job of hiding the massive ineptitude of senior leadership from its partners.
Cons
For the sake of transparency, this review was originally approved and posted, then subsequently removed for no reason other than the offense taken by the organization for sharing truths and facts. Glassdoor only “permits discussion of individuals when they represent the public face of the company and have great influence over the broad work environment,” which is why the only person being referenced (not by name) is someone who represents the public face of the company and has great influence over the broad work environment, employees and culture. He remains anonymous and appears only as [REDACTED]. No 401K match. And 100% no desire to change that. Standard employee benefits and benefit vendors are below average. They generally seek out whatever benefits are the cheapest so they don’t have to spend money on employees. Management is a disaster. It starts with a corrupt, narcissistic, vile unethical, Trumpian child-man bully [REDACTED]. He’s stingy, impulsive, lacks: moral authority, meaningful professional corporate experience, sound judgment, strategy or guardrails of any kind. He believes his approach is the only one worth pursuing and often talks about employees behind their backs to anyone who has ears. [REDACTED] verbally assaults employees in meetings – including frequent profanity. He often tries to justify it by calling out those same employees for successes in other public forums. [REDACTED] is unprofessional. He once made a reference to how much it costs him (as a privately held company [REDACTED]) to pay for a generic employee’s health insurance - to a room full of his employees. [REDACTED] is untrustworthy. He will pit employees against each other by calling them individually about the same project to cross examine them. He’ll use that info against each employee. He also inserts himself into business convos with third party partners that completely undercuts any ongoing convos his team has with those same partners. [REDACTED] has created an environment of fear. All that matters is that he is happy at all costs. And his kids are on the payroll but never show up. However, their pet projects become projects of the paid professionals who are on staff – in addition to the work they are being tasked with. Senior leadership is weak, inexperienced at leadership beyond Intersport, and enables all [REDACTED] behavior. They are complicit in bullying, fear and other tactics that lead employees to question their value to the company (and beyond). It has become a caustic environment with zero vision, leadership or interest in anything but the bottom line (the beloved “scorecard”). When asked about the vision of the company post recent layoffs, the response was “you tell us what you’d like to do.” By the way, those layoffs were a function of the [REDACTED] wanting to drop “costs” due to a failed pet project of his. Everything is about his personal bottom line. Leadership is so bad they inquired about how to influence Glassdoor reviews. UPDATE: THEY HAD THIS ONE REMOVED AFTER IT WAS APPROVED! They just instituted performance reviews and goals on a company-wide basis for the first time in 2019. They had their first sexual harassment training in 2018. Company was established in 1985. Commissions are paid on a “timely” 6-12 month delayed basis after determining how to withhold as much $$ as possible using various internal equations that would never fly at a real company. Stay away. Your bad career experiences at other, more established, appropriate environments will do you better in the long run than a bad experience at this junior varsity company.