Vantaggi
A lax office space. Health/vision/dental insurance was good.
Svantaggi
If you do not work in San Diego, if you are not among the relatively small circle of remote workers in the company, you don't seem to matter. All of their efforts appear to be centered around trying desperately to keep up the façade that they are a wonderful company to work for, that they truly embody an idyllic workplace. The inner circle of this company are the only ones who have ever been given a true taste of what it's like to "go #blueboarding" and they wretchedly want to keep that up. The result is that they treat everyone else who carries out the product they sell like dirt. Working out of the Cincinnati office it became apparent early on that next to no efforts were being made to help our office team be successful. Really, it feels like they never meant to at all. If there was some one-off special occasion, their management in San Diego would order food that multiple members of the Cincy team could not eat because of food allergies that were on record. They didn't care enough to remember. We were never given monthly outings as a team like San Diego. We were barely acknowledged in their weekly meetings. After a few months, we weren't acknowledged at all. Despite multiple people in our office hitting some fantastic goals or receiving jubilant reviews from clients on our workload, despite people working 10-12 hour days to try and keep up, our work never seemed to be good enough for the elite few at Blueboard. Expectations never changed. You go on PTO? You sick? Oh well, your performance stats are going to tank and we'll blame you for it. Lose a ton of staff due to the burnout culture? Oh well, still your fault. I went to no less than 5 individuals in upper management at this company, explaining that I was leaving work sobbing because I never felt like I could stay on top of the insane workload. The responses varied from tepid to downright freezing - no one cared. Any advice revolved around pointing the blame at how I managed my work. Advocating for yourself at this company felt like a lesson in utter, humiliating futility. Think about that before you work here. Really think about that. A company that sells a product meant to retain employees and to have them "live their best life" had employees leaving one of their offices in tears, and not one person cared enough to go beyond gaslighting these individuals. This is a company that still blames all of its upheaval on being a start-up. Scroll up and remind yourself of the year they were founded. If you've never experienced whiplash before, strap in for it at Blueboard.