Boostability Reviews

-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.

To get an idea of the maturity level of management, just scroll down and look at how they respond to negative feedback. It's never their fault or they brush it away as an isolated experience. Having read all the bad reviews, let me assure you they are all accurate. Don't let any kind of response to this or fake 5 star reviews dissuade you otherwise. It's pretty easy to pick out the fake 5 star reviews. You'd think they'd be better at it since that is essentially the basis of their service offering. If you have any skill or knowledge in SEO or online marketing, Boostability will be a blemish on your resume. It's so bad that while looking for SEO related jobs with other companies in the area, I have been legitimately laughed at when Boostability comes up on my resume. You do not practice real SEO, but a perverted black-hat version that is designed to milk clients until they get wise. So if you are looking to enter the industry, I beg you to do it elsewhere. Management is laughably bad. They practice the "fake it until you make it" philosophy, but they just don't have the capacity to "make it". You'll be told to research your own answer on Moz.com, where you'll find that everything being performed by Boostability is opposite of what is accepted by the industry as acceptable. Favoritism and nepotism is rampant. Job requirements are specifically written with individuals in mind and will be changed without warning if you are the superior candidate so that the director can get their lazy friend who creates tons of issues on the team. Classy. The pay is bad. You'll make more money at Taco Bell down the street. Don't believe me? feel free to verify for yourself. The culture is very toxic. You are treated poorly, occasionally thrown a bone in the form of food or a gift card, and then guilted into not being grateful for being abused the other 99% of the time. Gossiping and bullying performed by management is the norm. HR is no help in this regard, so my suggestion is record conversations and then threaten legal action when it happens (trust me, they'll respond to that). Basically, Boostability is bad. Don't be fooled. You can do so much better.