Integrity Marketing Group Reviews

When I joined the finance department, I was given a completely different set of expectations in their interview process. I find myself trapped in a cycle of manual rework over and over and over, while upset customers and uninvolved management have constant tirades when their dictated clueless methods that they force you to comply with (against your better judgment) fail. In my view, the management will force accountability on you, while tying your hands at the same time and blame you for it. Finance teams are completely detached from the rest of Integrity and eachother. Each finance team is managed in a silo and I have seen cross-functional relationships with other departments or departments within finance are actively discouraged and frowned upon by management. I have witnessed finance staff being chastised for networking with staff on other teams and seen as a threat to be muzzled. Management does not even regularly attend the bi-weekly company-wide coffee talks where the rest of Integrity’s leaders show up and encourage as well as appreciate their teams. Management appears to not have a clear long term strategy nor any long term objectives. Forget IPO readiness, this management team has no sense of direction and as a result the day to day external issues govern productivity. It is demoralizing. Day in and day out. There is no appropriate procurement/ payables or purchasing management system, so much time is spent putting out fires and pretending things are under control. As per a previous review, partners who rely on the Company to pay bills are often sitting with issues such as cut off utilities and threats of eviction due to non payment. Furthermore the manual 1099 Tax Process has caused many problems. Year in and year out. Nothing has been done to improve the process. Management can change priorities multiple times in a day because, management appears to be incompetent, refuse to take advice and thus act indecisively. What’s worse is in my view, regardless of your education or impressive experience, management don’t accept any guidance or collaboration and make poor decisions which you are expected to carry out - and - failure falls on you. There have been multiple times where management have not delivered (because they micromanage their team so closely and with such a short term view that they often mess up on priorities) and then have thrown their people under the bus. Management is abusive (I have heard far too much inappropriate bullying by management) to the staff and do not follow any of the values of integrity Every employee whom I interact with in this department indicates that they love working for the company, are living in some sort of miserable hell along with me in the finance department. The biggest challenge facing the accounting teams on a day to day basis is the fallout from the new outsourcing process which was rushed. Management have led massive last minute outsourcing initiative. I am concerned about lack of Corporate Governance and encourage a review of the “consulting contracts” Accounting, Accounts Payable and Internal controls offshored employees are freshly hired (in an apparent rush, mind you!), grossly under skilled and unprofessional, with very poor communication skills. There is high turnover. Any person joining will have to deal with this day in day out. In my opinion, the department would rather spend twenty plus million dollars annually on consultants who management can more easily dictate to, than invest in staff who actually will push back and take pride in what they do for the long term benefit of Integrity. At a fraction of the cost. I do not expect any empathy or humanity from managements as I do not feel like I am considered by them to be a person worthy of such basic decency. If you have a family, any pets or any other responsibilities that might require flexibility (or temporary flexibility), forget about working here. You are required to be in the office from 9 to 6, period. Sick pet that you need to take to the vet? Forget it! Take PTO. Need to pick up a sick child from school? Forget taking any meetings or closing any work at home - you are REQUIRED to be at the office OR take PTO. Pretty soon you’re dealing with unpaid leave. In my opinion, family comes last. If you have young children or special needs family members - this is not a good fit for you. Many women have been fired for this very reason. Despite promises during the interview process by the management, I do not feel supported and family definitely does NOT come first. (These promises seemed to be genuine based on Integrity’s values). Things change very quickly after your first few weeks on the job. There is NO flexibility. I was pressured and bullied and told I are not performing even if they do see that you are working overtime to make up missed hours- and bringing meaningful results to the table. You did not comply with the 9-6 rule. You will not be supported in any way. You just better follow the specific instructions by management to the letter - even if it means self-sabotaging your own successes. In my view, If you start having health issues (especially mental health and other anxiety and stress related issues because of this toxic environment), there is no grace for you, even while you try to explore causes of symptoms and illness. It’s like you are considered broken and useless and you will be told that “they shouldn’t have to do that” when you ask for help or accommodations or concessions. In my opinion, you are not considered human by the management the moment you end up under their power. Most people try stick it out because they don’t want their resume to be ruined by a short tenure and of course with being micromanaged down to timekeeping in minutes - you can’t do much during your 1 hour lunch. We brought these issues and so have many exiting employees. Nothing has been done. When an employee is given negative disciplinary feedback, they are not given an opportunity to defend themselves. In my view, the management supports cronyism and misogyny and gaslight employees regularly. Management have issued instructions and then when their instructions lead to disaster - they have lied to my face and told me this is not what they said. They appear to enjoy breaking people as soon as they can and will pick fights and arguments with staff telling them that they are doing their jobs wrong and finding fault in everything - even if it is a 180 degree turn on what was stated the day before. I feel like you are not allowed to manage your own priorities according to what you know best practice is and will face abuse if you push for what is right. Forget about professional courtesy in this department. You are nothing more than an overpaid paper pushing minion here. Your qualifications and experience is not respected at all. I was forced to do things their way even to my own detriment when I know it’s a mistake but they don’t listen! I have been told to “just get it done” preceded by the impatient click of the tongue many times. In my opinion, the management is just biding their time to cash their ESOP units and they do not care about Integrity’s wellbeing in the long term.

I'm hanging on for an IPO which may or may not actually come with a payout. I'm guessing they may "eliminate our positions" before that happens to cut the expenses and make them seem even more profitable.