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Visit California Reviews

3.2

45% would recommend to a friend

(7 total reviews)
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Caroline Beteta

27% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

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7 reviews
1.0
3 Aug 2017

Great benefits, terrible environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great benefits, decent pay, honors major holidays

Cons

High turnover rate. People are petty, vindictive and lazy. Some people work hard and are great, but many just delegate and fly under the radar by being popular. Most people go into work fearful they'll be fired and leave each day happy to still have a job. Terrible for morale. People are fired simply because someone doesn't like them and the cliques that run the show makes high school bullying seem like Disneyland.

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Visit California Response
8y
We want to thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. We are disappointed to hear that, during your time at Visit California, your overall experience did not match our goal of being one of the best places that you've worked. As an organization, we are committed to being a collaborative and contented environment for everyone, so we are disappointed to hear about some of your experiences. Your description of the staff was disheartening, and we are very sorry you felt you were treated unfairly. Those are not characteristics we've heard before, most feedback we have received has stated that the staff has been collaborative, encouraging and hard-working. We take employee development very seriously, with many hours invested into each employee's on-boarding and training. Although it occurs infrequently, the decision to release someone from the organization is not take lightly, and we do not release someone from the organization based upon their social status within the office. If someone has areas for improvement, steps are taken to allow them the time, opportunity and resources needed to make those necessary improvements. I can speak to this as I am personally involved with every staff disciplinary action. We appreciate your advice to our management staff. We not only will continue to hire the most qualified people, but it is also very important that they understand and believe in the culture of the organization; to fully cooperate with and act with the utmost professional demeanor with all employees, the membership we serve and the public in general. Thank you again for providing your feedback. It helps us make Visit California a better place to work. We wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors. With Gratitude, Matthew Sabbatini Chief Operating Officer
3.0
28 Oct 2019

Amazing work, amazing industry

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Can’t beat promoting an amazing state. Sizable budget. Access to knowledgeable partners.

Cons

Out of touch leadership. Politics outweigh performance. Power inappropriately given to people with no subject matter expertise that aren’t open to perspectives other than their own.

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Visit California Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. We are disappointed to hear that, during your time at Visit California, your overall experience did not match our goal of being one of the best places that you've worked. As an organization, we are committed to maintaining a collaborative, innovative and respectful environment for everyone. Your description of the leadership staff was disheartening, and we are very sorry if you felt your skills and expertise were not utilized during your tenure. That is definitely not the type of environment we are striving for and take any feedback seriously. Most feedback we have received has stated that our leadership has been collaborative, encouraging and hard-working, and former and current staff feel that their voices were heard and their new ideas welcomed, even if the ideas were not implemented. The entire team is expected to keep an open door policy and we know we encourage any staff member from any department to come to their supervisor or above whenever facing a challenge. This is given to each employee during onboarding and throughout their tenure. We appreciate your advice to our management staff. With regard to your feedback on transparency; it is always a goal within our executive leadership to filter communication back down to our teams. It may not always perfect, but we try very hard at it and we are committed. Everything we do in the organization is with a focus on transparency. We are also focused on continuing management training programs that will help our management team grow to be the best leaders they can be, and continue to act with the utmost professional demeanor with all employees, the membership we serve and the public in general. Lastly, we are saddened that you were unable to take the opportunity to discuss these concerns while an employee so that we would have had an opportunity to address the concerns you had. We will consider ways to make it easier for employees to bring concerns to our attention while still employed. Thank you again for providing your feedback. It helps us make Visit California a better place to work. We wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors.
5.0
8 Aug 2015

Operations

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great organization...huge growth potential Small staff, like a family Stable funding, not governmental funding like previous post. Love when people who don't understand funding model post inaccurate info Work hard play hard culture Amazing office space Best benefits you can ask for

Cons

Gossip circles produce inaccurate info Need more staff Six year cycle One or two negative staff can affect a lot of people. But they do what they can to weed out the negativity quickly.

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