SBE Entertainment Group Reviews

- the company has a very large ego. - lots of dedicated, high-quality employees but their intelligence and work ethic are taken advantage of on all levels. Meaning most employees are expected to take on roles that would normally be held by entire departments of people while they are led on with false promise of career growth. They talk a lot about promoting from within but it's a very small number of people and usually all men. - jobs are subject to elimination at the whim of the volatile CEO, causing continual anxiety from the executive level down. Entire departments have been known to disappear without notice, leaving the remaining employees to pick up the pieces. Sometimes this happens to entire departments over and over again as they are recreated and broken down many times over. - qualified or not, you will definitely be hired as an intern if you have influential family members (usually your father). It helps a lot if you are Persian and it is best to network in Farsi. - employees are expected to go with the program and are not allowed to stand up for themselves (i.e. ask for raise or promotion) or it will not go well for them. - very inappropriate work environment (employees have to sign legal waivers stating that they understand that in a hospitality environment they will be subject to sexual harassment, crude jokes, etc and they waive their right to care - aka "sue" - about this) - constant inefficiency and waste of both money and time. Identical projects are often assigned to multiple people. Many times it is impossible to determine that someone may have been assigned the same task because there is no rhyme or reason to why certain people perform tasks that have nothing to do with their actual role. Also, against the advice of people lower on the totem pole, very little strategy is applied to projects at the beginning stages as the focus is always put on having the final product asap no matter what. This causes money to be spent on the same projects over and over again. Sometimes, people lose their jobs unnecessarily and by no fault of their own. Like everything else, this part of the culture flows from the top down. - job descriptions are non-existent. - besides executives, everyone works at a level far, far, far beyond their title and pay. - extremely insensitive management. The day after the day when 35 people were laid off at once, the CEO had his expensive new Mercedes delivered to the door where they were returning to drop off their severance paperwork. It didn't make the laid-off workers or even those who had kept their jobs feel very good. Executives have also been known to laugh about laying people off. - occurring mostly within the business model as well as on executive business trips, activities that would typically be considered extremely immoral by the general population are commonplace and eliminate the opportunity for women to network. - retirement plan was eliminated entirely (not just matching) and never returned as a benefit. - company lacks resources or does not want to apply the funds in order to execute what the CEO would like to accomplish but employees are still expected to complete tasks at a the level as if they did have the resources - using personal contacts for business purposes will likely ruin your relationships since the company tends to actively pursue opportunities then become suddenly ambivalent and drop them without notice and for no apparent reason. Manage the deal carefully. - two words: glass ceiling

Do yourself a favor and stay far away from SBE/ C3. The company has no idea how to operate and it’s a “boys club” at the executive level. They don’t care about their employees. They pay far below industry standards. You’ll be lucky if you get your bonus and there is no 401k match. The turnover is super high because they sell a hip and cool brand on the surface, but have nothing to show for it once you join the team. Sadly, the company has no chance of turning it around because the stubborn, above it all CEO is set in his ways and will never change.