Steer clear of Fierce - Anonymous employee FierceMarkets Employee Review

Includes fun domestic/international travel to tradeshows in places like Las Vegas, New Orleans, and several spots in Europe depending on your vertical. Also, there's an opportunity to make a lot of money, and work a young, fun office environment with great people. I've worked in sales here for 6 years and would recommend my position to anyone that's looking to make a career out of it.

Historically the company has lacked a lot of structure/processes, so this has resulted in a lack of clear communication and direction to employees at times. Lately, there's been a lot of focus in these areas with the help of new hires in management roles, but there's still room for improvement.

A lot of young people, so can be a fun atmosphere. You will all bond over how miserable you are.

The company has done very poorly financially in the past couple of years, due to very bad management and business decisions, which has resulted in a very large amount of layoffs, and not an equal number of re-hires. The staff was already stretched too thin, and just continues to be more so with less employees but the same amount of work. A lot of promises were made by upper management that never came to fruition, including compensation and bonuses that were owed but never paid. The corporate owner, Questex, has stepped in to try to right the sinking ship. They've gotten rid of a lot of bad eggs in upper management, but have yet to properly address the fundamental problems that contribute to a very high turnover rate (even before the layoffs began). Slightly below normal pay for a straight-out-of-college employee, but very little room for actual professional growth (you may get a new title, but you'll be doing the same work because they won't be hiring someone to take over your "previous" role) and very-little-to-no raises. The exception to all of this being if you can get in with the Life Sciences vertical, which is the only profitable division of the company and run very well. I would only (very cautiously) recommend this company to someone fresh out of college - stay for a year or so max. for the experience then leave. It will also set your expectations for an employer, company and job very ,very low, so there's no place but up to go when you leave.