Everyone is leaving this company as fast as they can. - Anonymous employee DrFirst Employee Review

2.0
30 Oct 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked there for several years, and saw the company grow from a large handful of people to several hundred. It used to be a place where the experience you gained was directly correlated to the effort you put in. I learned a tremendous amount while I was there.

Cons

* First and foremost: it is a 100% fact that someone at the Director level within the company organized a company-wide program which rewarded employees for writing good reviews on Glassdoor. Those who did so would receive a gift card or company paraphernalia of some sort. * The company is a bureaucratic nightmare, with conflicting factions among the C-level and Director-level staff, adversarial relationships between sales departments, and a "dog-eat-dog" culture that's encouraged among all employees. * The CEO regularly judges your job performance by whether you're there early, you stay late, or you come in on holidays, regardless of whether you accomplish twice as much as some of the other employees while you're there. * It is a regular practice for C-Suite employees or Directors to berate or insult employees publicly. * The C-Suite and Director staff is bloated with executives who make exhorbitant amounts of money while accomplishing next to nothing. They're being rewarded for work they did 10 years ago, with no need to do anything today. * Meanwhile, at the mid-level and below, the company's turnover rate is disastrous: they have gone through five sales managers in their most lucrative vertical, lost many brilliant product managers, and have let so many talented employees leave due to poor company morale and even worse pay. * Nepotism is rampant: promoting the least productive and least respected employees because of who they're friends with, or whom they're related to. * It is regular practice for employees of any nature to publicly point out an innocent mistake by another employee by sending an email admonishing them, while copying managers, directors, and members of the C-suite. * Many employees have PhD-level proficiency in passing the buck, and blaming others for their own lack of performance (or lack of productivity in general). These employees are rarely, if ever, punished. * If you're a sales person, do NOT work here under any circumstance. You'll be given laughably unreachable sales goals, and be asked to sell products that do not exist (aka vaporware) in a market with far superior options.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Work from home culture creates nice work from home balance. Great atmosphere and you do not feel micromanaged and pressured. Great team to support you when you have questions.

Cons

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