Pros
The people you will work with on a day to day basis are helpful, intelligent and hard-working. You become extremely close to your co-workers because you all are terrified that the next random and emotional firing will be you. They have become so frequent that people no longer assume that the fired person was incompetent. They just assume that the firing was a result of a meltdown. This fact is solidified in the team meetings that follow the firings, because the CEO has to explain to the company that 1. the person saw it coming (not true) 2. they know what they did wrong (again, not true) 3. you have to "trust" upper management (how can we?) It's the same song and dance every single time. From what I've been told, SEER's great reputation was built on the foundation of a small search company that exceeded client's expectations. The reputation that is still pitched to prospective employees and clients is from a few years back, but "that SEER" is long gone.
Cons
One of SEER's favorite pitches to newbies is this - SEER isn't for everyone. Well, once you get in here, you'll quickly learn that SEER isn't for anyone. Someone in a previous review stated that us marketing folks care about numbers. Well, here are some numbers (that can be easily found on LinkedIn) SEER doesn't want prospective employees or clients to know: - 13 people out of 86 have been at SEER over 3 years (15%) - 8 people out of 86 have been at SEER over 2 years (9%) - 20 people out of 86 have been at SEER over 1 year (23%) - 45 people out of 86 have been at SEER less than one year (52%) - Of these 86 people, 36 people had no marketing experience before SEER (42%) - Most of the 50 people that did have "experience," have one search related role previous to SEER - Of these 86 people, less than 10 have a GAIQ or AdWords certification (~7%) - The company has tripled in size in the last two years, however, over 50 people have been (unjustly) fired or quit in this time - Of the people that have quit or been fired (without cause), almost everyone has gone on to better paying and respected job roles HR answered one of these negative reviews on this site that commented on the amount of inexperienced people by saying that they hire "entry level marketers with amazing ideas, extreme passion, and crazy ambition." HR should be spelled PR, eh? Basically, if you take a look at these reviews, you will see an overwhelming amount of positive reviews in late June. That is because SEER asked us to give recommendations and the only people who had the time to do so were people that have been here a few months, and don't really know what it's like yet. Also, side note, take a look at the grammar skills of these "entry level marketers with amazing ideas, extreme passion, and crazy ambition." It sounds like this - Isn't it like absolutely like amazing to work at SEER cause like you totally get to like go to Six Flags and like wear flip flops?! Anyway, the people that have started to give grammatically correct reviews (with valid talking points) obviously have been burned by SEER or are anticipating being burned by SEER and can't wait to leave. Take this into consideration when reading these reviews. And take all of this into consideration before you work here or work with SEER.