(Skip to the end for the worst part of the experience)
- Forget work/life balance. This is much more of a lifestyle (or cult as some say) than a company. Your friends will be from Valuetainment, your family will be from VT, you'll eat, breathe, sleep VT. It's not uncommon to work from 9 to 9 M-F, then throw in 5 to 10 hours on Saturday and/or Sunday.
I would get texts regularly on Saturday nights (the latest at 11pm) asking me to do something, even if I set boundaries. The hours caused such crazy high stress that I gained 25 pounds in the first 3 months of working there.
- The comp wasn't great. The pay is low and nobody gets equity- which for how hard people work, they really should. To be fair, I've heard the pay structure has changed, but when I was there the pay was literally $2k/month + commission (and commission wasn't that high bc of splits).
*Note- PBD says he gave equity to people at his life insurance company. He did, kinda. He still owned 82% when he sold it, according to an interview I heard. I heard how much some other long standing employees made after selling PHP and it was in the low six figures. That's great, except for when you've literally given up everything for this (including for some leaders, their marriage).
- Your sales manager splits 50% of your deals if they help at all- unless that's changed, but I don't think it has. So, to get your manager to help you, they end up taking half of all your commission- JUST FOR HELP! That's not good leadership. A good sales org gives managers just a 5% override and that incentivizes them to lead and help others be successful.
*If you work here in sales, stay long enough to become a manager. They make a TON of money. You'll be scraping by until then, but you can then get paid.
- **The worst part** Similar to other reviews, I saw lots of bullying. I've never seen so many people cry, scream, yell, and be frustrated at work IN MY LIFE. People are stressed beyond belief to meet deadlines and meet expectations, and this causes people to set unrealistic expectations, make many mistakes, and be mean to other people.
**Need proof? Look at the replies to negative feedback here on Glassdoor. There's so much defensiveness in VT's responses- not saying, "We'll investigate this, sorry for your experience" but rather, "If you don't want to work hard [ie, 24/7], you're not for us" and "You must have misheard or misunderstood." There's very little acceptance of feedback. I'm all for hard work, but the culture is beyond hard work.
**I cannot emphasize how bad the culture is and the bullying. There's a group chat for ex-VT employees who share about how crazy their experiences are. I am no longer apart of it since I still respect the VT content, PBD, Tom, and Adam, but it was crazy to read.
So why do people work there?
- If you want to meet PBD, Tom, or anyone else there
- If you want to work LITERALLY 24/7
- If you want to expand your network with incredible people
