Truth about being a JDA - Jda Tempus AI Employee Review

1.0
19 Dec 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company provides benefits such as "unlimited vacation", Fooda stipend everyday, Snacks provided in the kitchen

Cons

There are numerous cons for this department because of its poor management practices by leadership. As a JDA, you have a manager (lead), they report to a higher up and get instructions from them. In this chain of command, the higher up makes all the decisions that are told to be carried out by the team to do your job. As a JDA you have no respect in this department because the leadership verbally abuses their employees and at meetings use unprofessional language to talk to the JDAs. They even received "leadership training" recently, but it is of no use, since the leads and their boss still do not have a change in their behavior. We have minimum goals of cases to attain each week, and if these are not achieved, you get a warning. After 3 warnings, you are put on a Performance Improvement Plan, and I have seen no one come off of the plan. Basically, once you have three strikes, you are on the road to be fired without any help from your manager to do better. Also, you see in other departments that their managers and employees hang out outside of work or at happy hours at work, while this is far from the truth in this department. This department is such a toxic environment, and while all of this has been reported to HR there are very few changes made. You are not given lots of opportunities to talk to other people in the company unless you go out of your way to reach out to them. Overall, I would not recommend this position to anyone because it is not worth the hard work and no payoff.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
12 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

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Cons

Pay is below industry average, and there is essentially no room to negotiate a better raise. Employees are actively discouraged from discussing compensation, and whatever leadership decides is final, there are no exceptions. If you try to escalate concerns or request a conversation with senior leadership, such as a senior director or VP, you’ll quickly find yourself getting the runaround. Leadership prefers to hide behind layers of management rather than engage directly. There is also no clear or transparent path for career advancement. Opportunities technically exist, but they are extremely limited. You can do everything right, receive a top rating of 5 on your annual performance review, and still not be promoted to manager or see any meaningful improvement in compensation. To make matters worse, the billionaire CEO and founder has said things like, “Don’t worry about pay because we’re curing cancer.” Statements like that feel incredibly out of touch when employees are earning $50k–$60k a year and receiving annual raises of only about $2,000. On top of that, equity is almost impossible to obtain. You have to fight for even the possibility of it, because stock or equity compensation is reserved almost exclusively for the C-suite and directors, with virtually nothing available for employees below that level.

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