BBG Management Reviews

3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

(42 total reviews)

John Gabriel

74% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

BBG Management has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 42 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BBG Management employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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42 reviews
1.0
27 Oct 2014
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Pros

The CEO is a good man. He gives good training, however, it is not worth the $400/month "internship"- a 3-month period. Also, when someone is "let go" the President (a "dirty" businessman) buys lunch- which is considerably often so I would say there are many free lunches (however still not worth $400/month for 3 months).

Cons

An overall bad experience dealing with unprofessional management. Some of them are racist, homophobic and openly rude to other employees. You can tell the morale is low as seen through the more senior employees. No one has worked there for more than 3 years and already they constantly look tired and burnt out. I feel sorry for them. You can tell by looking at them that this is not somewhere you would want to build a career. There is also little room for career growth as management does not invest in their employees. The company is small and forced into a two window "bachelor" like apartment. They claim to be flexible but this is not true. There is no work-life balance. If you take time-off you will likely be "let go" due to "corporate restructuring" but from what I know, things have stayed the same for years. They preach about their success (which occurred one year a few years ago (past employees refer to this as the fluke year)- they have not seen this kind of success since. As well, the President likes to micro-manage employees, stability is non existent and the turnover rate is incredible high. Finally, there are issues with the company paying what they owe employees. They paint a glamorous picture of salary plus commission but in reality they almost never pay commission where commission is due. Needless to say your hard work will not pay off. They are currently dealing with multiple legal issues with past employees. There is another reason for this- perhaps they are not dirty and merely poor and going under..but in that case, it is another reason not to work with or work for BBG Management.

1.0
17 Nov 2016

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

There really are no pros to working here other than the fact that management forces you to take time out of your work day to write a fake review about the company on here, so that they can keep a high rating.

Cons

No Vision dirty office Management finds every reason not to pay someone HIGH turnover any reasons that you can think of, to not work somewhere.... this place will add to the list.

1.0
7 Oct 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Low based salary with high based commission structure Company outings every month or so only to improve company morale Downtown location near grocery store and restaurants Casual dressed environment Free parking for a downtown location

Cons

A lot of turnover within the organization. If you do a quick search on Linkedin on former employees you will see a large majority of them stayed less than a year. Management does play favorites and I have seen my fair share of good recruiters being fired over the struggling ones just because they rubbed John the wrong way. During my time there before I quit I have been through 3+ "restructuring" phases where John would fire anywhere between 1-5 recruiters without warning. This caused a lot of strain for the senior staff as we have to train up new junior recruiters on top of our already strenuous hours of work. After each firing the remaining staff are rewarded with pizza to cull the dreary aftermath. The office itself is very small with one small shared washroom that has no ventilation. With the proximity of each recruiter to each other it does get loud when several people are making phone calls to candidates which makes it sounds like we are working in a call center environment. There are unnecessary daily meetings to discuss about who is doing what. Quantity over quality is the idealism here. If you do not submit enough candidates, make enough phone calls, send enough messages you will get called out on it.This is all tracked and presented on these meetings. Though the commission structure pays out well for the work you have done it is ALWAYS delayed. You will not get paid for the work you've done until the client has paid BBG which takes 3 months. Even then you have to constantly remind finance and John to pay you for your commission as they constantly forget. As this is a 'low pay/high commission' structure it creates a lot of stress for recruiters that rely on commission to make a living. Do not let the positive reviews fool you. The company has been pushing new and current employees to write positive reviews to trod all over the real ones that are both neutral or negative. BBG is a good way to get your first taste into the world of recruitment but I would not see it as a long time career.

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