A Disorganized Company with a Sub-Par Working Environment - Project Manager bei Cyberactive: Mitarbeiterbewertung

1.0
6. Sept. 2012
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Pros

- The company offers some flexible hours and, depending on your position, some personal/holiday days. - Most of the employees who work there are extremely nice and willing to help in whatever way possible. It's a good family vibe. - New ideas are often welcome if you can provide good support for why they should be implemented.

Kontras

- The other management is not on top of the work processes. The project leads have no project management ability of note, and very limited understanding of the scope for any of the web-based projects that are requested. - They're not competitive with their pay. If you find a job ad from them listing a certain salary "Depending on Experience", be prepared to get 10-15k less than that after they offer you the position regardless of how impressive your resume is. Once you start working there, you'll have to spend the first year or two working to reach the salary that was initially listed on the ad. - Because of the company's lack of understanding of how to pay competitively in a web development/technology field in Los Angeles, you will always be working with sub-par developers and creative teams who are contracted overseas. - There is no medical/dental, no 401k, and you will have to work 45 hours per week to receive your full salary. If you want to work a standard 40-hour work week, your pay will be cut. - There is no formal QA process, and the management constantly has to be reminded what step of the development process comes next (Example: website creative comps will be sent off to HTML without being approved, business requirements and use-case documents won't even be reviewed before development occurs). - Everything is heavily monitored. Every keystroke of your keyboard is recorded. All of your phone calls are recorded. You are videotaped 24/7. Your 30-minute lunch break is very closely monitored through clocking in and out with a thumbprint scan. - Communication is lacking. No one ever has any idea what anyone else is doing. There are no regular status meetings and no hot sheets or project lists. Most employees have no experience in a web-development field or with anything technology-related and just follow what they're told to do. - No formal training is ever provided. You will be given work that is not in your initial job description and not within your work experience, and you will be expected to learn it on your own. This is not necessarily because they don't want to take the time to train you. It's because no one who works there will have the right knowledge to train you properly. You will not get paid extra for this work, even if you ask.

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5.0
23. Sept. 2010
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Pros

Worked here for nearly a year. Never once had a problem. Got work from remote boss, but had his boss in my office. Both were great to work with, gave great advice on projects, never took their own problems out on employees like most managers I've worked under. I simply got the work, always had someone patient to turn to with questions, and got plenty of positive reinforcement when things went well.

Kontras

Work was a little boring at times.

1.0
21. Mai 2024
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Pros

The job title will look good on a future resume.

Kontras

My position was technically under the family office, and referenced me being an employee of Epione Beverly Hills but the majority of my tasks were in direct support of the CyberActive entities: I have never experienced such severe mistreatment from management before in my professional career. The title of Personal Assistant became an all encompassing title, making the three in house assistants directly responsible for website management, marketing materials, IT, social media, and government certifications on top of the typical assistant tasks involving the household and family. There has not been a single assistant within the household who has managed to stay in their position for over a year. Despite the level of responsibility placed on the assistants information such as passwords, names and positions of other employees, and standard protocols are never reviewed formally and are expected to be learned on the spot. Additionally there is a small team of overseas workers who act as the primary point of contact for timecard management and password access. I cannot stress enough how heavily protected the overseas team is by the owner despite numerous mistakes on their end that lead to verbal harassment of the in house employees from the owner. The most egregious instance where a timecard was not corrected by the overseas employee before the paycheck was cut led to an hour of full blown yelling from the owner to the employee in question, despite the employee having no power to adjust the timecard themselves and the employee having proof of confirmation from the overseas team that the error was meant to be adjusted. There are no health benefits/coverage. No 401ks. 30 minutes of an unpaid lunch break, and no lunch provided, despite the owner openly eating at the desk in front of the assistants. Work is slated to start at 10am, but that does not stop the owner from messaging employees as early as 5am with a list of grievances from their previous shift. These grievances can range from anything like an amazon delivery being opened by the house staff and left in the laundry room to accusations of incredibly high value items around the house being 'misplaced'. At this point I have had several people recommend I look into legal protections or the CA state law regarding VQ440 for unemployment payments due to an untenable situation. I cannot advise people strongly enough to avoid working for the family.

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