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VISIT PHILADELPHIA

Is this your company?

Leadership should be ashamed if they could feel. - Anonymous employee VISIT PHILADELPHIA Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Junior members were hard-working, passionate, and could find their own inspiration despite the demoralizing conditions.

Cons

Self-proclaimed C-Suite would belittle anyone who wasn't "in the club". New positions were made most likely as favors or ways to line their own pockets. They just as easily talk behind your back as they do smile at you. Normal everyday perks for all staff members, regardless of rank. were taken by upper management which eventually got so bad they had the new "open floor plan" staff members by the door taking the phone calls and opening the door for visitors and deliveries. Their diversity and inclusion initiative is a joke. We can see right through it. Take a look at their PR. Not exactly the narrative they spend so much time (but not effort) talking about. The worst part, upper management saw a pandemic as an opportunity to line their pockets. First staff members were fine due to government funding. Somehow that didn't last past June. Whoever was left was doing the jobs of many and told to be grateful. A shameful shell of its former glory The city should be embarrassed, probably investigated, for sending any funds here now. This "tourism agency" was milked for all its worth in a matter of months by greedy individuals with a complete disregard for those that took a job already had bad compensation compared to equal positions elsewhere. The corruption here will likely be taught in history books soon.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

good team and fun outings

Cons

hard get hired unless you know someone

1.0
Nov 27, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

For prospective employees, I’m not sure there are any pros at the moment. It used to be a great place to work/learn and meet really driven and talented colleagues. At my time of leaving, morale was so low I’m not sure someone new would find any benefit.

Cons

For a nonprofit, they’ve strayed far from being mission-driven and are now entirely focused on PR hits rather than actually creating meaningful campaigns that generate tourism interest. Employees aren’t trusted in their respective fields and are instead expected to go through leaps and bounds to make a select group of the least hard-working individuals at the organization seem like they’re the ones worthy of praise. Decisions come at the last minute and disrupt any progress one could make at standardizing their responsibilities. I spent a good chunk of my last year there envisioning how great of a place it would be to work if the board saw through the hollow leadership, cleaned house at the executive level, and started fresh. It is truly a free for all for those that make the big bucks and everyone else has to follow suit, no matter how much sanity or integrity you lose along the way. While Visit Philly may still have a positive external reputation, these reviews make it clear it’s only a matter of time before the dam breaks and the hard work of the many individuals who laid the foundation (and tried to salvage the organization) will be overtaken by the failures of those select few.

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