Vantaggi
Great coworkers and work life balance.
Svantaggi
CEO Geff Scott is a visionless buffoon. He's been on the job for about 18 months and we are on our second set of consultants as a company. We have to hire these consultants because he can't plot a future on his own. As CFO, he wasn't keeping basic financial benchmarks, yet was somehow promoted to CEO. It's ridiculous. Salaries are low, so as a result, our operations team is a disaster. Business Wire just had a botched roll-out of "upgraded" news distribution software. The result was news releases (our only product) weren't posting to the top financial websites that my clients pay for. This happens routinely because our tech is subpar and there are no consequences for mistakes. It makes it extremely difficult to sell clients on our services. The new, Geff Scott-hired HR team has ruined the greatest benefit this company had: its benefits. A family of four will have roughly $5K fewer in available benefits in 2019 than they did in 2018. They fired the person who spearheaded these new policies, but are keeping the policies. An utter disaster that has noticeably hurt morale. And last, but not least, is bad work atmosphere. When lots of bad changes happen all at once, you predictably end up with unhappy employees. Everyone I know is updating their resume and plotting a move to a different company. It's a shame, too, because Geff Scott, and the decisions made on his watch, have ruined a once great company. There are better salaries to be had in sales, so I recommend looking elsewhere, either to a more stable company or a better salary.