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Strategic America Reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)

John Schreurs

76% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Strategic America has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Strategic America employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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31 reviews
1.0
11 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It’s a job. I can’t think of much more.

Cons

I truly wish that I read real reviews about working for this company before I accepted the position. All the negative reviews that I’ve come across so far have all ring true now…even the old ones from almost 8 years ago. 😳 Major red flags from the onset of things. Overbearing, micromanaging manager. No set scope of work. No solid system or process in place. It just seems like tasks are thrown around in a frenzy because people are either disorganized or overburdened. No real order. Way too many different departments and department heads that somehow new hires must meet with amongst a bunch of sporadic job-trainings that just get thrown on your calendar. Way too many teams meetings. Excessive on-camera teams chitchat wastes of time that could efficiently be knocked out by a weekly email. Between bouncing in and out of teams meetings, and a disheveled set of tasks, my calendar and to do list both give me anxiety. Even when asked for your opinion, thoughts, feedback, or meaningless get-to-know-you small talk, say nothing and smile. And then let’s not talk about the employee summit gathering, which totally defeats the purpose of being a remote worker. There was absolutely no mention of hybrid work or travel requirements during the unnecessarily lengthy and thousands-of-interviews interview process. Really, no real benefits. I believe that because they have such high turnover rates, they intentionally hold off on offering real benefits. And talking about turnover, for remote workers, they warn you about throwing away the boxes that your equipment is shipped to you in from the very moment they send it to you. Planning for failure, turnover, because it’s so frequent I guess. I don’t know how so many of the old heads have stayed employed for so long at the company, but there are tons of toxic flags based on what I’ve seen. I would not recommend. Reviews are for honesty, and for genuineness in helping someone else decide whether they want to work for a company or not. So much room for improvement here. Hopefully management actually reads these reviews so the necessary improvements could be made because I’m pretty sure that even if they had and exit interview process in place, they probably wouldn’t listen to anyone’s honest feedback anyway. Disappointed with what I got, vs what I was sold…and pretty annoyed about it at this point. There must be a “better way.” 😕

3.0
11 July 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote work and nice enough people

Cons

No structure. Everything done in emails instead of with a system. No conventional standards of how to do anything. No one knows what you actually have on your plate since nothing is shared between teams. In office employees are clicky and cut throat They cause each other to get paranoid and it really feels like if your remote your invisible until they want to get on to you about something. I.e your remote they can blame you for any and everything. Easy scape goat. Instead of let’s fire someone who made a mistake (clearly a mistake not an intentional disregard) why not help us balance the literal hundreds of buys we have. And don’t let people treat other employees the way I was treated.

1.0
20 Feb 2020

Layoffs

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Depending on your experience, you can get paid a decent amount.

Cons

Traditional company stuck in their ways. HR tries to make improvements and send us surveys but then don't do anything with it. Office is silo'd so you can't make meaningful connections on the work you do internally and for clients. Beware, they laid off 10 people in September 2019! No warning. Just gone. No rhyme or reason to those that were laid off. Most didn't even work on the client that SA lost.

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Strategic America Response
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Thank you for this feedback. We did go through the very painful process of reducing our staff by 9 associates last year, something we have only done 1 other time in our 40 year history. Senior leaders involved in this process spent many hours diligently discussing these very difficult circumstances with a priority in taking care of those impacted through generous and thoughtful exit packages. As is common in these types of situations, business operations does not provide the luxury of informing those outside of the decision making process in advance, which I’m sure you can understand. We pride ourselves in our traditional, family-like feel and culture; it’s something that differentiates us, yet we know we can always improve. Thank you for recognizing improvements are important and thank you for your contributions to SA -- best of luck to you!
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