Beyond, Inc. reviews

The pay is ridiculously low, and one of my co-workers who is a hard worker from what I've seen told me she didn't get a raise for 4 years, which just goes to show that employees (at least in my department) are not taken seriously or appreciated. The manager of my entire department even admitted that everyone is underpaid. The PTO plan is not competitive, and there seems to be a very high turnover rate. Upper management will do things like announce that they made 25 million dollars on Black Friday with the help of everyone working hard and staying late if necessary, and then in the weeks following, which are less busy, they will say that they want people to go home early (without pay or they can use their PTO) to save the company money. That just doesn't seem right to me. If you are hired to work full-time, you should be able to work full-time every week of the year, not get your hours slashed because of holiday circumstances. The CEO and president seem to have a weird relationship, hugging and kissing at company events etc.. It just doesn't seem professional. I've also heard stories from other departments that upper management (particularly the president) will fire people based on their own personal whim and not because the employee was inadequate or did anything wrong. Perhaps they had some productive criticism that wasn't taken well. To sum it up, upper management seems egotistical and doesn't seem to care much for the employees that work hard for this company. I received another opportunity and was happy to leave.

Upper Management has no clue how to grow a billion dollar company. How they manage this site is a great example of that. They are constantly worried about their image and try to manage it. For example: - They have their sycophant underlings post positive reviews to bring up their scores. At least half of the positive reviews on this site are of that nature - They constantly remind employees in company standups how great the company is and encourage them to post positive reviews here. I guess if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it?? - They respond to negative reviews here by blaming the reviewers. (Why is the CEO answering posts on Glassdoor?? How about managing the Company instead) You don't make a company a good place to work by managing your image. You make it a good place to work by what you do each day, how you treat your employees and how you improve your company. The fact that Management obsesses over this site instead of doing their real job should tell you everything you need to know about how much they focus on the wrong things. Because "loyalty" to the CEO or President is more important then skill most of upper Management is just plain incompetent in their business areas. This is very frustrating for regular employees because you constantly have to work with people that have no idea how areas like Marketing, Merchandizing, etc should really be run. Regular employees keep things running but with the mounting frustration of having to constantly manage the people above you it wears on their moral and eventually they leave. They have had a huge exodus of really bright, competent people the last couple of years. Money is constantly wasted on pet projects by the CEO or President. The company has been stuck at about the same level for years, not because the employees don't do their jobs but because they are often working on projects that don't grow the company. All the big projects in the last few years have not really made the company any money. People don't like working on projects that seem of little to no value except to gain approval from the CEO or President.