Pros
I was excited at first to work at BDA. I had heard of so many people that had been with the company for decades, giving the impression that the company values their employees. They talk about employees being "family" a lot (like a lot a lot).
Cons
This "family" is incredibly dysfunctional. Gaslighting, bullying, passive aggressive at the best of times. They put on an air of a fun, inclusive environment, but in reality it is limited to the sales arm of the company. If you aren't in sales, you are inconsequential to the ownership and executives. There is very little for upward mobility in this company, from my perspective. The management that has been with the company for uptown 25 years is so ingrained in how things have been done in the past that they are not open to modernizing the way things are done and are closed off to the ideas at all. They manage by "do what I say" and not by the time tested way of hiring experts in their area and letting them do what they are best at. Training opportunities are only available on your own time, so if you want to become better at your job, you have to do it on your personal time. The turnover rate at this company is so high. Week after week people are just disappearing into the void. The only people that stick around (or aren't fired) are the "yes men" and high earners in sales.