Sub mediocre and less than basic - General Laborer Virgil Employee Review

1.0
Jun 25, 2020
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Pros

Nice smart people on staff Happy hours Convenient location The building has a gym One work from home day Peanut butter pretzels and bubbly

Cons

No goals or plans for the business Management doesn't operate in good faith they promise a lot but don't deliver. This goes from compensation promises to bait and switch techniques with candidates Prorated raises. It's a standard 3% increase that they tabulate based on when you started and not annual salary Marketing monitors the glass door page and puts up fake reviews A lot of turnover either people leaving on their own or getting let go No real mission for the company just put out whatever fires come up from some half baked implementation Not a real start up environment no one is excited about anything they do Fake open door policy It's like 50 people in the company and communication sucks To many chefs in the kitchen Disorganized Weak and uninspired leadership No future

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5.0
Mar 2, 2020
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Pros

- Profitable HR/ E-Learning firm in downtown Chicago - Smart, effective Founder and CEO, with good vision - Smart, experienced Co-Founder and COO, who knows how to make/ manage money and teams - Exceptional marketing team - Great office in heart of downtown Chicago, with flexible hours - Significant upside potential, with new product offerings and lines of business

Cons

- Working through significant backlog of product work

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1.0
Dec 19, 2019
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Pros

If you like free beer and snacks this place is for you.

Cons

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” this quote embodies the majority of Virgil holdings. The executive team at Virgil has a lot of wishes. There is a lot that they want to accomplish, however they have no plan and from what I’ve seen they have no goals of making a plan. The company is constantly churning, making decisions on the fly, changing those decisions on a whim, and constantly changing the corporate direction based on the fires they are fighting today. The expectations of employees is not clearly stated and the executive team frequently tries to push people to “step up” and “deliver more” even when employees are already working 50-60 hour weeks. Virgil holdings also has a track record of promising benefits and compensation that they can not follow through with. Some of the basic compensation agreements in their offer letters have never been fulfilled and the executive team does not seem motivated to do right by their employees.

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