-Undervalued. Despite clamourings to the contrary, management doesn’t care about long-term employees, particularly full-time (40 hr/week) employees who’ve worked at the company for more than 2 years. They made multiple changes to company policies that benefited employees who’ve been with the company for less than 2 years and worked far under 40 hours/week, and then told the full time employees, “Look at all these benefits we’ve implemented that don’t help you at all! See? We totally care!” and then never implemented anything to make the more senior employees feel valued for their extra time commitment.
-Underpaid. When you start, you might feel like you’re paid well, but as you work for the company longer, gain more knowledge in the field, and start doing more, your wage does not increase as much as it should. Full time employees with college degrees who’ve been at Boostability for 2+ years are making on average 10k less per year than similar employees at similar companies in the valley (this per Glassdoor’s own Know Your Worth metric). The company gives excuses about quarterly raises helping with this, but don’t be fooled: the quarterly raises are between 4-13 cents/hour. Congratulations. You can buy an extra Big Mac this year.
-Very little practical vertical movement. Management likes to say that there are lots of opportunities for movement around the company. This is true. There are. However, 95% of the job opportunities posted by the corporate recruiter are lateral movement opportunities, meaning they’re merely switching between teams and offer very little pay increase, if any. Every once in a rare blue moon, there will be a true vertical movement opportunity, in a management position and/or with a substantially higher salary. Once every 6-9 months does not a frequent opportunity make.
-Dishonest business practices. Some of the SEO strategies the company incorporates are grey-hat at best, though the company touts them as white-hat (aka honest). Just guessing here, but I think the blogger whose blog you’re spamming the comments section of is going to disagree with that. Unless that’s not why they’re deleting those comments? It doesn’t matter how much QA you put your specialists through; spam is spam is spam. Because of these grey-hat practices, management views Google as the enemy, coming up with new workarounds for the latest algorithms, rather than working *with* Google to help the clients far more in the long run.
