28% positive business outlook
Pros
Great work environment, plenty of resources to help get daily duties completed, so-so benefits, flexible hours.
Cons
Questionable management (certain departments), low salary
Pros
- Flexible Hours - Friendly co-workers and managers - fun place to work
Cons
Salary is lower than expected
Pros
Good people and former family owned company was great. The Barrett's took care of people. Reasonable working hours and family time respected. Layoffs done recently...at least most people given a decent notice period.
Cons
New CEO from ERT is not truthful. He does town halls and promises one thing and then delivers another. Very broken processes and no one takes ownership of fixing the root cause. Animosity between operations and development. Managers do not help solve issues when raised around delivery issues. Lack of diversity in leadership team. I have seen only two females and all others are white males. Imaging seems to be the only business that matters going forward and that is the only executive who is regularly onsite from ERT.
Pros
Flexible work hours, innovative industry, great co-workers, location
Cons
Company is not willing to spend any money, take leadership, or hire the appropriate amount of people to catch up to their competition. Through lack of direction, unknowledgeable managers, terrible communication, and the inability to get forward-thinking ideas approved, all is lost. Very sad that the chairman is the only executive concerned about the growth of the company. -Out of date technology, very high turnover, low pay, a very cliquey atmosphere, and no training program which equates to very high stress levels. The amount of unfairness and immoral activity that existed was incredible. As many would agree, HR is virus to the company. I am very shocked that they have not been sued for the unethical activity that exudes from this department. Either fake it to get on their good side or don’t ever expect to get a raise (HR has all of the executives on a leash). Be sure not to share any personal information unless you want it spread throughout the entire company.
Pros
Hours are flexible, people are nice, community feeling
Cons
Pay isn't even close to being competitive. Because of this, the proper people cannot be hired on to fix the problems. Communication also has a lot left to be desired. Also, directors and executives are too loyal. They do no let go people that need to be let go. The cost of benefits keep increasing, even though benefits are horrible.
Pros
Flexible hours, business is always changing, room for growth. Soon to be updated 3rd campus at Westport (APR2016). It seems that most of these negative reviews are from people who have been let go. Trust me this place is a good place to work in a great location. They have really flexible hours, and are always willing to work with you.
Cons
Not many. The pay is low for certain positions, but seems to be improving. 3rd campus was terrible, but is being taking care of.
Pros
My co-workers were great, despite being mistreated. There may have been disgruntled feelings towards management, but we worked as a team despite the low moral because at the end of the day, we didn't do it for the company, we did it for the steady job and the jobs of our friends. Work/Life balance was flexible, but I think that's how they are able to retain most of their long-term employees. I was able to go back to school; I saw that others were able to accommodate family more than they would be able to elsewhere.
Cons
Lied to by HR, and probably management regarding salary expectations. Good work gets rewarded with more work requiring longer hours (for salary employees). Instead of being congratulated on completing an advanced degree, I was just told by management that I shouldn't expect my pay to reflect the accomplishment. This is a small company so there isn't much room for advancement beyond a senior position, which just entitles them to keep you there until all hours. I was told by others, BMS was known as a platform company: someplace you go to get the title (because it wasn't reflected in the pay) and the experience to go somewhere else. This is exactly what was done here because there are no incentives to do a good job or maintain company loyalty. So you either have poorly trained new people, or employees only in it for the stable paycheck. The company is family owned by three brothers, but from what I've heard the family feeling was gone before I got there. I think I saw all three over the time of my extended employment, but couldn't tell you which one was which. Face time with anyone above your boss was reserved for situations you didn't want to be in anyway. So I'm not sure anyone outside of our office space even knew my name when I left.
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