Pros
Free parking, Mission Valley office...
Cons
Working at Commerce Acceleration or "Accelerate" is stressful and toxic. Employees are overworked, and often hired at a junior level expected to take on senior work for junior pay. He will also hire juniors and interns with promises of quick advancement. This company has obvious financial issues and a very high turn-over. Overall working for this company was a stressful and negative experience. Upon working for Accelerate you may be excited. The CEO/ management talks the company up, and does not mention any financial difficulties or high employee turn-over. The CEO is a salesman, and often will over-sell, over-promise and UNDER-DELIVER. It will not take long until you realize you can not trust anything coming out of the CEO's mouth. He will lie straight to your face. An example of this is when a paycheck does not come through. He will make up excuses and completely avoid you. Another example is weekly promises of raises, new-hires, operational changes, training, etc. He does not follow through and it becomes hard to believe a word out of his mouth. This creates an extremely toxic and stressful work environment. None of the the back-end engineering/ development for the websites are done in-house. He will use the large (shared with other companies) office space as a selling tactic to make his team appear large. The truth is that all of the developers are off-shore and many of them work an opposite time schedule as San Diego. You will be expected to come into work from 8am to 5pm, and then also get online to manage over sea development teams. The developers often speak broken english and are rude. The quality of work is not up to par with US work. If you do not work at night, you will be sent slack messages in your off time making you feel guilty. The management will also send many work emails after the hours or 8-5 so you will constantly be reminded of your stressful job even when you are not at work. They do not know the definition of work-life balance here. There were frequent events where paychecks did not come in, and check were bounced. Also there is frequent talk in the office of interns not getting paid, developers not getting paid (you will hear Brad the CEO yelling at them), and independent contractors not getting paid. The company also did not pay the health insurance on time and the entire company went without health insurance for 2 months. I am sure he will reply with more excuses. The CEO prides himself on staying up all night working, along with his COO. This is a recipe for disaster. Things are done last minute and sloppily. They come into the office un-kept. Clients are lied to and overpromised and sold a team that does not exist. This creates a very negative and resentful work environment. Listen to the advice in these reviews and stay away from Accelerate!
