Trying to Be a Company That They're Not - Anonymous employee Eight Eleven Group Employee Review

The biggest issue with working for Eight Eleven Group is that they don't walk out what they preach. Their culture was built on then green college students who were new in the career and wanted the feeling of a corporate environment where spending time with co-workers and drinking at and after work were important. Those same individuals are now at the Manager/Director level with families and are looking for a flexible, supportive work environment that Eight Eleven has not grown to provide. Sales conferences and meetings that incorporate all night drinking binges, overnight trainings (where you share a hotel room with your same gendered co-workers....) and being in the office every single day are just a few of the ways that Eight Eleven says are foundational to their "culture" and will not change. This company will preach that there is nowhere better to work, but that is untrue. Additionally, the employees at Eight Eleven Group are some of the hardest working and best educated people that I know, and they are not being compensated accordingly. Since I've left this organization, I have had only 3 additional years of experience but have more than doubled my salary.