Progressive Expert Consulting Reviews

Progressive Expert Consulting has a very poor CEO and management department. Their main priority and focus is to keep the "Helpdesk support" room full. They will hire anyone with or without a degree and stick them in that room. In most cases the hard working employees in that room end up leaving or being let go after they grow bored and restless in that room and need/ want more responsibility within the company but are never granted it. The company rather than promote internally like a normal company will look for higher paid potential employees online who may posses a degree but do not know how the main operation in the company works. This is when the lowest people in the bracket will end up training these other employees for a few weeks and they will then go off and make double what Helpdesk support makes but will not know nearly enough to do their job title. The company is constantly hiring and firing numerous employees at once and will have a very public and sometimes humiliating display of firing employees often times in front of their peers. Avoid this company.

This place is great at making things sound much better than they really are. You will have your interview with one of the owners, and they will tell you that there is much advancement available in this company in the field you want. However, when it comes time to hire someone for that position, they will hire someone from outside, and will not even mention it to the people that work there. They will hire you on as part time, and give you full time hours without any of the benefits of a full time worker. You will sit in a room with at least 5 cameras in it (that change position!) And 2 long desks for about 30 people. You have 3 monitors (and a laptop) in front of you. You use these to watch at least 3 classes. You use VMs to get into multiple classes at once, in which you will sit there and stare at people on their webcams, speaking in at least 2 different languages (the classes you watch are language learning), until they need you. They make it seem like you're tech support, but you are just a glorified babysitter. The people in classes frequently refer to you as big brother. You're at the mercy of the classes, as most don't end on time. Some go over by half an hour, cutting into your break or leaving time. You're in a chat constantly with "supervisors" that are supposed to answer any pressing questions, as well as cover your breaks since you're not allowed to walk away. Good luck getting an answer! Management basically doesn't exist. You know they're there, they're watching, but you never see them, nor are supported by them. The only time you see them is when the higher ups for the companies you are supporting are there. They don't give out raises either. Its dependent on how well the company is doing, and each time the opportunity came, we were denied. The location is in a very unsafe place - they frequently have to use their security cameras to give footage to the police for crimes. I.e., someone getting run over, shot, or property stolen.