Great place if you have the "right" last name!! - Anonymous employee CARFAX Employee Review

3.0
28 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch on Friday. Occasional free breakfast. Frequent celebrations that include alcohol in the work place. Very relaxed dress code. Free gum in the gumball machines. Casual work environment.

Cons

This place is like a well disguised high school circus act! On the outside it looks amazing and you are wowed by all of the perks they appear to give you for about the first month, but by month 2 you realize that a bunch of clowns are running the show. It is definitely a popularity contest and no matter how UNqualified you are, if your last name is Eager you will have a job for life. I have never seen a more blatant case of nepotism play out in any corporate environment like it does at that place. And when an Eager isn't throwing their weight around, you have to deal with the "mean girls" put in charge who base their hiring decisions on how someone's make up looked in the interview, or how much they think a person will kiss up to them. So much of middle management is crying out for help that if you walk the halls at night you will definitely hear their dreams dying a slow death!

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