Tradavo Reviews

2.4

31% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

Bobby Martyna

31% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Tradavo has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Tradavo employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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62 reviews
1.0
5 Nov 2015

Diseased Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Relaxed working atmosphere, both in professionalism and dress. After nearly three years, I will be leaving the company at the end of the month!

Cons

There is no HR department to reign in incredibly wayward employees, with both drinking and drug use occurring in the workplace. Managers arrive hungover and unable to function. The CEO has absolutely no idea how to run a business and this is reflected in the quality of managers he hires, the decisions he makes, and the abusive nature in which he treats his employees. Benefit roll outs are botched, with an entire office being caught in health coverage limbo for over 3 months. After being told to cancel our current plans, we were all left hanging with no insurance, no cards, and no real concern exhibited by the CEO and upper management. Racism is alive in the office, with black women being ridiculed for choice of hair, makeup, and style. Favoritism is common practice as well, always resulting in pitting individuals against one another and causing office conflict. The company is so far in debt that once every month, a major vendor shuts us off for a week or so, causing major delays in customer shipments and losing all of our profit margin on expediting all those late orders.

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Tradavo Response
10y
Apart from addressing this post, I am very proud and excited to state that the Company is a member in good standing in the community, continually wins performance awards, participates readily in charitable events, fosters a feeling of engagement and participation, promotes readily from within and is well regarded by customers, partners and employees. It’s important to note that most of our employees aren’t posting here – but are enjoying the benefits of working for a good Company and serving our customers as they have for our nearly ten years in business. We are not perfect. We look for genuine suggestions on how we can improve, we consider all contributions very seriously and we often take decisive action. Unfortunately, no such constructive suggestions are found in many of these posts. In our experience, real positive change comes from direct and frequent dialog, over time, with respect and consideration all around. In response to this specific post, although I am aggrieved at these allegations, I am grateful for the opportunity to address them and to expose the inherent dishonesty in each. Countering these deep mistruths in a public forum isn’t preferable – but we are left with no choice. When our integrity and values are disparaged indiscriminately and without foundation, we must set the record straight using every means at our disposal. In short, these are obscene fabrications from whole cloth. It’s incumbent upon us to address the community at large -- current, prospective and future employees: We have hard evidence, available to the community on request for each of these following statements we now present. Medical benefits have been in place since the day we made the commitment to provide them. Medical insurance cards (not insurance coverage, as claimed) were delayed for five weeks, through no fault of the Company. We communicated several times in excruciating detail – via e-mail, to the group and in one-on-one meetings, that coverage was indeed in place and had been since the announced date. This was an inconvenience caused by our insurance company and our broker, but there was absolutely no lapse in coverage whatsoever. Furthermore, the Company paid for ALL medical coverage for ALL enrolled employees for that first month as a ‘make good’ for an error on the part of our insurer and broker in not delivering the insurance cards on a timely basis. That means all employees and families received 100% free medical coverage – with no employee contribution for the first month. I truly find it hard to believe that there is any criticism to be leveled at all. The facts were simply misrepresented by the poster with intent to do harm. Additionally, the Company went well beyond obligations and expectations to compensate employees for an error on the part of the insurance company and broker, even though employees suffered NO interruption in coverage whatsoever. I call that “real concern” -- as did most employees. We offer full 100% employer paid dental, vision, long and short term disability and basic life insurance for employees – putting us in the top decile or higher of contribution to employee health benefits for companies our size. Second, it’s not that racism cannot exist here, but suffice it to say that due to the racial and demographic makeup of the Company employee base, the specific allegation simply could never have happened. We have a diverse populace of 40 full-time employees, with professional women and protected groups outnumbering white males by a good majority. The alleged ridicule of numerous “black women in the office” could not have occurred within the last three years. If the poster saw evidence of racism against a fellow employee or anyone else in the workplace and said nothing about it to anyone until now, this could make the poster complicit, in direct violation of our policy. Lastly, the Company is financially sound. We judiciously manage our payables to vendors, just as our customers judiciously manage their payables to us. Absolutely normal, prudent business practices. We would like to thank the alleged former employee, as we did learn something very important from this post: It is critical to ascertain the emotional health of prospective employees during the hiring process – and afterwards throughout the tenure of our employment. We need to more carefully screen for individuals with a propensity for overt fabrication and callous rendering of malicious harm to others. The poster attempted to harm the Company at large, as well as former peers and colleagues with a full, scarcely disguised intent to damage our collective ability to succeed. Hiring is a challenge -- and we need to get better, as evidenced by the post. For this reason, we are immediately enlisting support from HR professionals to help us further develop our screening processes – there is absolutely no place here for malicious individuals. Thank you.
1.0
16 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Management is nice when they want something in their favor.

Cons

So when you see an actual positive rating for this company, it is because you are asked to do so by management to try and offset the negative ratings when so many are posted. I was a perfect example of this when I was asked to do so myself when I worked there last year. If you notice, all the positive comments as of late are within the same month and from employees that have been there the longest.

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Tradavo Response
8y
This is another negative review from the same person.
1.0
30 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Nice office -Good location -Great co-workers -Good work space area -The ability to work from home -Travel (when needed)

Cons

-The ability to work from home, sorry, I mean expectation that you will continue to work from home after leaving the office at 5pm. -Unorganized management -The CEO -Managers -Large workload, little to no support -Minimal training -NO HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT -Fast turnover You will not be appreciated for the work you do; even if going above and beyond.

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Tradavo Response
8y
First, it's good to hear that you found some positive things about Tradavo during your tenure. But certainly there were some things you didn't find attractive. I could dispute your comments about not being appreciated but the anonymity doesn't allow for that. In fact, maybe you were appreciated and we didn't tell you quite enough publicly and/or privately. But if that's how you felt, I could not be more sorry. I assure you that we are very, very appreciative of all those who contribute to the success of our customers and to the Company. The very best of luck to you!
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