Toxic work environment that practices a culture of fear and belittlement
Pros
Before the latest set of executives, there was a fairly good culture that allowed for creative freedom in executing one’s job description in a flexible work environment Good healthcare plan, PTO and flex work plan (until recently that is with PPTO getting cancelled and no one is allowed to work from home even one day a week any longer. Most people who worked for me and did at least one day from home were extremely high performers)
Cons
Summary: Toxic and fear-based with executives that have little to no experience running a company successfully. It is extremely difficult to get another position due to WorldVentures overall reputation and it being a multi-level marketing company which is an industry with an unfavorable reputation Executives are trying to game GlassDoor and pressuring people to provide ‘positive’ reviews Details: I would like to disclose that I was not let go for any reason, nor a part of the many workforce reductions that occurred at WorldVentures over the past year and a half (and still regularly occur as recently as a few weeks ago). I left of my own accord two months ago for another position after an intensive job hunt that took well over a year. This review is an honest assessment of WorldVentures without any bitterness attached. It took me over a year and a half to find a viable position outside of a multi-level marketing company (MLM) due to the reputation of WorldVentures and the industry as a whole, so you will want to bear at least that in mind before accepting a position at this company. Many recruiters told me that the biggest hurdle for non-MLM hiring managers to overcome was the fact that I was currently working for an MLM which made them generally very skeptical. If you are not a career MLM’er do not accept a position at WorldVentures. Many of the people laid off in 2017 still have not found a position and because they were not career MLM’ers, they are having an extremely difficult time finding work. WorldVentures is the most toxic work environment I have ever encountered or heard of from others. Executives regularly berate and belittle people in meetings and at live events from stage and from backstage to gain credibility with field reps who are themselves extremely toxic and mean-spirited people to those that work in the corporate office. If you don't go along, your career may be verbally threatened as mine was. Most department heads, of which I was one, very regularly experience frantic text messages in off-hours and insult-laden phone calls in the middle of the night, or late at night on weekends (including Sunday nights) with ‘emergencies’ that are not time sensitive at all and continues to foster an extreme culture of fear 24/7 resulting in zero work/life balance. Those department heads are then asked to turn around and wake up staff members to craft an email or design a new asset to address a paranoiac concern of whichever executive feels threatened that particular day for any number of various reasons. I hesitated to review WorldVentures at all because I believe in just walking away from toxic people and situations, that is until I heard that they are putting extreme pressure on current staff members to go on GlassDoor to provide positive reviews, even though the culture and fear remains the same. Many of the existing positive reviews are most likely disingenuous and are suspiciously timed around when layoffs occur, of which there have been many.