Digital Marketing Startup with Fun Culture and Premier Clients - Anonymous employee iAcquire Employee Review

4.0
11 Mar 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The culture here is one of the best parts of this workplace - the environment and energy is fun, supportive, and positive. They also have a few pretty name brand clients on board, and because of the small size of the company, almost every individual get some hand's on time with some of these more exclusive brands. It wouldn't be unusual to have regular conversations with C-level folks from big name companies, no matter what position you hold in the company. In addition, operationally this team is able to be fairly nimble, which is critical working in a vertical like SEO, where things are changing constantly.

Cons

This company is pretty lean, and with one main office and one remote office, it is sometimes difficult to get top-level support/approval on things when you need them. For this same reason, in terms of career advancement, you often have to be your own champion, although this isn't a bad thing necessarily.

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5.0
26 Aug 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This is a fast-paced, deadline-driven and fun environment. There is ample opportunity to learn the ins and outs of content marketing and SEO, and hard work is rewarded. They're looking for stars, so if you're looking to coast, this isn't the company for you. I love it here -- great people, and my boss is super easy to work with and very reasonable in regard to work-life balance issues.

Cons

Things change fast here. Industry best practices change rapidly and therefore, so do processes and priorities at this job. if you like that pace, great -- but if you don't like change, then again, this is not the place for you.

2.0
16 Jul 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can learn a lot about SEO here. You can learn about how startups fail. You can learn about people management and what works well, what doesn't work well. You'll probably meet some cool people. You can play ping-pong as many times a day as you want, as long as you hit your numbers.

Cons

The senior management is constantly changing production workflow, employees' job titles and procedures. They give very little training when new versions of the software roll out, and they don't seek users' input on platform development. The CEOs value hold little regard for individual growth, job satisfaction, professional conduct. This company is very good at creating a front-facing image that looks great on paper, but behind the scenes they fail to meet deadlines and are always scrambling to keep their clients. The morale was always low, and as a mid-level manager, I was caught between the senior managers who wanted me to target people to fire - and my team, who wanted to be recognized and fairly paid for their hard work. It was a horrible place to work, but a great place to learn and grow as a human being.

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