The Worst Little Company You've Never Heard Of - Anonymous employee Brainjolt Employee Review

Unlimited PTO is a lie. They’ll ask you to work during your promised, scheduled vacation-time and if you resist, you will risk termination. H.R. is non-existent and any complaint you have gets you labeled as hostile and forced into mandatory "attitude adjustment" classes. You will get hired to do one thing - most likely something you are very good at and passionate about - and then asked to do something you have never been trained for, something you frankly do not care about nor ever intended to pursue...and then get fired when the new position doesn’t go well. Brainjolt is a very bad company with no potential for success. They have had flashes of promise through the years but each time something or someone with potential comes along, that project or person gets squashed and run out by incompetent, jealous, praise-starved leadership who will give you directives and then call you a liar to your face about them. The CEO is self-appointed, no-talent trainwreck who has no board to report to which gives him unbridled control. Sounds fun, right?!? When things are going well, he heaps 100% of the credit on himself and when there is a down period (which is often), he passes the blame to “the algorithm” or “a couple of bad hires.” No, YOU expanded the company based on what you considered to be “hacking” (lol) the algorithm. Own up to it. And YOU made the terrible hires. Own up to it. He is the least qualified person to lead in the entire company. His decisions are personally responsible for the incredibly high turnover in the company and why ultimately, Brainjolt will go under. He has never had an original, creative idea in his life, but does love to take creative ideas from others and then pass them off on his own. Man, what’s not to like? Many internally have expressed a much-needed structure shift to those around him but the foolish pride of the CEO will not relinquish his reigns, no matter how much common sense says that he should. His partner and the company’s TRUE founder, who from all appearances is well-meaning - just unable to keep up with the times and the changing media environment - has already fled ship and left the office. Consider the team inspired! There are some incredibly talented people in upper-management, but unfortunately for the in-house team they all live out of state and don’t get to witness the CEO’s day-to-day nonsense and incessant meddling. To his credit, there is a glimmer of possibility that he realizes he doesn’t know what he is doing and has recently taken steps to put bodies between him and the staff. But unfortunately, those people ALSO are grossly incompetent which has led to even more turmoil and for talented staff to leave for greener pastures. Which, is literally ANYWHERE. This place is a dump.