Bond-Pro Reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)

Frederick Duguay

72% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Bond-Pro has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bond-Pro employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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38 reviews
1.0
26 Feb 2019

Don't Work Here - Extremely Hostile Work Environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company has direct deposit and free high deductible health insurance.

Cons

It is a hostile work environment. Leadership only knows how to manage by belittling their employees. The CEO, Fred, randomly grunts at employees, or screams and yells and makes the entire office cringe, wondering how long it is going to go on for and who is next. Not an effective management style. The CIO, Chris Lis just as bad, screaming that employees are incompetent instead of looking in the mirror. The CDO, Vic, likes to walk around with an air that he is more intelligent than anyone else. It's just a really bad work environment and there are no standards in place to protect the workers from the violent outbursts. Being insulted is the norm.

1.0
21 Feb 2018

Emotionally Draining

Recommend
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Pros

Management has a vision to change the industry Beautiful offices in downtown Tampa with free parking Pay on time You get to learn about the surety bond industry You get to work from home on the weekends (usually) Some people can work from home during the week It will cure you of any addiction to Dilbert, The Office or Office Space

Cons

The management at Bond Pro is a classic case of people who having been a part of a successful venture in the past wrongly attributing that success to themselves and placing blame for any failures on everyone around them. There is little training or direction, and ever-changing requirements from management that must be incorporated and adapted to immediately. If the requirements cannot be met immediately, employees are expected to "make up" for it by working nights and weekends. Passive-aggressive bullying management styles persist throughout all areas of the company. For example: a manager will speak on the importance of work / life balance and how everyone needs to determine it for themselves and then will leave the meeting, change the requirements for something being worked on that “needs” to be implemented “right away” and then require weekend work to achieve it. Deadlines are arbitrarily imposed and when challenged the impossibility of them is explained as a necessity. When the deadline is inevitably missed management places the blame on the workers, changes deadlines and often doesn’t communicate the changes keeping everyone in a frenzied, high-stress state. Bonuses are used as carrots on a stick. The promise is the carrot always just out of reach, the reality is the stick. Expectations are communicated in a double-sided way that prevents understanding of how to achieve success. For example, tell people they are empowered to make decisions but then complaining and undermining the decisions they make. Constant smoke and mirrors, saying things that are intended to mislead while usually (though not always) avoiding outright lies, leading to a confusion and mistrust. Management talks like a modern development company in areas such as work / life balance, agile development, scrum, valuing employee contribution, collaborative working environment, employee empowerment and open-door policies while not actually practicing them

1.0
30 Aug 2018

Terrible Place to Work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Nice office. - Nice location if downtown Tampa is reasonable for you to get to and you like being downtown for after work activities like a Lightning game. - Fully paid health insurance. - Nice co-workers, though you can tell how stressed every one is from working there.

Cons

- Executive team and owner can routinely be heard shouting at each behind closed doors (sometimes not). - Executive team micro-manages the heck out of everyone underneath them. If you like to be micro-managed with somebody looking over your should watching everything you do, critiquing your every move and brow beating you, this place is for you. - High stress work environment. - Unreasonable deadlines. - Long weekend hours with no additional benefit. - It feels like management is just stepping on the backs of their employees to achieve their goals, if they ever get there. - Bonuses kept just out of reach. - Highly unorganized work structure, including lack of good documentation, business process and project planning, office processes and structure. It always feels like management shoot from the hip with everything they do. - Brutal interview process. It felt like the Spanish Inquisition. - Terrible location for many to drive to.

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