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Some pros but far too many cons - Anonymous employee B&H Photo Video Employee Review

1.0
16 Oct 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Once you’re signed off, you almost never need to answer things outside of work hours. Fridays are half day and you can work from home, at least for now, as they are looking at stamping this out. You get lots of time off for Jewish holidays and you might even get paid for them depending on your role! You will eventually get okay benefits after three months. There's one free banana almost every day and sometimes more free snacks and meals. You also get very good discounts at the store if you shop there. Most of the work is interesting and most people are friendly.

Cons

Low pay and bonus structure that's below market especially for New York. Additionally, be cautious as they often will offer much lower than what they listed in the job description, something they won't mention until the very last second. Some employees aren't even paid for all mandatory holidays. There's no ability to work from home except for the half day Fridays, which you make up for by needing to spend nine hours on the clock in the office Monday through Thursday. You are forced to badge in and out even if your job makes just about no sense to limit timewise and often this leads to you working more than expected or things progressing much slower than they should. You actually work 41 hours a week most of the year and a lot of that is spent sitting in the office or getting to the office. If you can work remotely, they will complain if you do even if you're sick encouraging you to use PTO instead, which is absolutely ridiculous in the post-COVID world. There's little flexibility with working. You'll be penalized if you show up late even if it's not your fault. The office isn't a great working environment overall. It's noisy, visually unappealing, and overall not a good place if you happen to have sensory issues. One review mentions neurodivergence being punished here and this is absolutely true. It's an even worse environment for women or LGBT people as it's incredibly conservative. I would regularly witness extremely under qualified men get projects that skilled women wouldn't. I regularly heard a few employees make openly racist comments and lots of extreme political views with little recourse or way to complain. Nepotism is rampant to the point where projects would get severely derailed because of insistence work be done by people with more "experience" at the company usually meaning more time spent underperforming.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Some nice co-workers across different departments They only hire because people keep leaving.. so if you need a job to fill a role they have, they will take you to fill a position.

Cons

-Extreme workload and high expectations for little pay. -PTO has to be used for a Jewish holiday if you want to get paid. They give you a mousepad showing if you will get paid on certain days. You work all year long and regular employees only get 1 day for Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years. -Micromanagement and consent surveillance. You are tracked on the computer and how long you stay in a program or if you are away from your desk for too long it will get flagged. -They hired a new company from the outside to monitor you as well to the point where you can't use your phone. They want to give you a flip phone. -Very toxic management and HR staff... very unfair and will give you zero give if you need to work from home.. they will tell you use your PTO. -Zero career growth whatsoever, everyone. -Favoritism gets you higher up in the company. -Very behind in tech & software on the corporate side but they want to have the latest for the vendors. -High revolving door, very churn & burn mentality. -End to WFH on Fridays... You will only be coming in for 4 hours... tough if you are traveling from far away... -Zero culture and no work-life balance

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