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4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)
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Graham Turner

100% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Advisor Websites has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Advisor Websites employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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43 reviews
3.0
17 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great team members, free beer, good office location in Vancouver (but they are moving to the suburbs soon with no skytrain), no pressure job.

Cons

Very low pay for everyone except a selected few (read those who are friend with Bart and Alex), ancient computers, broken chairs, no vision, no strategy, poor software that doesnt meet security standards in financial services industry and is not PCI compliant even though they tell clients it is, no personal accountability (if somebody misses a goal or target it's ok... Weird concept)...

3.0
23 July 2018

Good stepping soon, but the CEO has no idea what he's doing

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people are great They give chances to people who don't have a lot of experience Great if it's your first job, good stepping stone Awesome company culture

Cons

Salary is waaaaay below industry average High turnover No consistency A lot of burnout The product doesn't work as well as it should

2.0
26 Apr 2019

Repetitive Issues and Struggles

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong culture, provided opportunity without experience, if you have a high tolerance for high pressure and are able to brush off harsh criticism you may succeed.

Cons

Poor organization. I see responses from the company that people's bad experiences were due to times of "high change". Unfortunately that excuse has been used for years and continues to be used, instead of addressing core management and product issues. Problems are solved by playing hot potato and passing blame to lower level staff, while high level management is golden and untouchable. A common solution to burnout and struggling employees is to lay them off or let them go, to avoid them spreading any bad attitude to newer staff. At least that is what appears to have happened to multiple team members, even some long term. The turnover rate when I was there (although several years ago) was extremely high. Unfortunately the CEO seems to take personal offence to anything that knocks the company or product, and seeks to just silence those critics instead of taking criticism with stride and using it to have happier employees and a better product. He will act like he wants honest feedback, and even ask for it directly, but his responses are always the same generic "pep talks", and not real action. Unfortunately upper management consists of people who have little or no experience working anywhere else, so their habits and stagnant strategies keep repeating themselves. I will say that it is entirely possible things are far different from when I worked there, the entire staff has essentially turned over since my departure, but recent reviews here would say that perhaps isn't true.

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Advisor Websites Response
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Thanks for taking the time to write this honest review from your perspective. Getting feedback like this is how we can grow as a business to make it stronger for the future. Best of luck and I hope you're doing well.
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