Prologue: THANK YOU, employee who wrote the "AP" review. I almost lost my sanity thinking I was the only one noticing issues given the sheer amount of fake 5-star reviews and all the office kool aid.
Cons: The way HR inflates the ratings is by emailing employees individually at different days/times - lauding benefits of positive Glassdoor reviews and asking them to write one. This puts pressure on new employees - getting the email personally and asking to have it written before they get a sense of the issues plaguing company (hours, nonexistent training, lack of challenging work, low pay etc).
Many of these are already covered in the "AP" and "Burn and Churn" reviews, so I'll add my 2 cents with the breakdown of the "benefits".
401k Matching
- It's a 50% match up to 3% with 5 YEAR vesting. The industry standard is 6% with no vesting or 1 year vesting. In layman terms - you get a measly 3% 401K match after working for 5 YEARS with the company. Average time a new employee spends at this company is (I KID YOU NOT) 1.5 years. This means if you work here the average amount and make $60,000, the 401k contribution by the company is $240. That's it! And only if you put away 6% ($3,600).
Time Off
-12 days! Industry standard is 18-20 days. 12 days is the minimum legal requirement in NY. The kicker here is - if you don't take them, they expire. You don't get reimbursed. They don't transfer. They're gone. Your total time off for the year - sick and vacation time - is 2 weeks! Not to mention, the layout is open space so it's easy to get sick and it's hard to get days off.
Summer Fridays
This is my favorite fake benefit. Many start-ups are doing summer Fridays now where you can leave the office "early" at 3pm. First you're allowed about 5 short Fridays total. Next if you schedule one, you have to make up the hours you take off beforehand by working late all other days (average day is about 10 hours to begin with). And finally, you can find out on the Friday you planned to leave early that you can't. This will happen to MOST of your planned short Fridays. The saying around the office is "Summer Fridays are a privilege, not a right" but many employees haven't taken one in years or take 1-2 a year. So basically they just leave 3 hours early one day a year. That's not a privilege, that's a FAKE BENEFIT.
Training
The benefit of working for most companies is the training you get and the amount of transferable skills. There's virtually no training here. Another review pointed out that management is actively preventing training to keep employees from leaving. I'm not sure I believe that but it's not too far out of their toolbox. All the modelling/analysis is behind the scenes, and the modeling software is unique to AP. Current analyst should ask themselves if they can do any of their work without GPSE. Do you know all the formulas? (Not just ROI) Do you know the statistical theory behind regression modelling? Can you forecast results for clients? Take a look at the skills required for other marketing analytics positions - how many do you you have? Most positions require knowledge of VBA and there's only one person at the company who knows it.
