Beyond, Inc. reviews

By far the most elitist, fearful place I've worked. There are a lot of incompetent bullies in management, and they become more common the farther up the food chain you go. Nepotism runs rampant. Really, the best way to get ahead is to be 'connected' to someone in upper management. Being an LDS male is also helpful. No flexibility or work life balance in my group, but that isn't the case in all groups. Not only is there no training budget, it takes a solid month to get access to software and documentation they have on hand, and then you're expected to instantly become an expert in the things they actively prevented you from training on. Folks on the business side like to give hilarously incomplete business requirements, refuse to answer followup questions and then become very irate if you can't instantly read their minds and give them what they want in some unrealistic deadline. They know they can get away with this due to the distain for technical folks that goes all the way to the top. Report developers routinely get into trouble if the data says something they executives don't want to hear. If you land in the right group, middle managers will protect you from most of the nonsense. If not, you'll find yourself being blamed for everything, working an insane number of hours, doing a piddly amount of work in the most idiotically time consuming way possible. If you complain about the fact that you're being set up for failure or worked to death for no good reason, the response will range from a pat on the head to 'tough shyt' to being written up for 'being negative'. Many people go to great lengths to not take ownership of anything. There's no reason to do so. Success is rarely rewarded and failure is always punished. Known problems aren't addressed and manual processes aren't automated because everyone is too scared to rock the boat. The company also likes to over hire and then go on a firing spree. Usually they wait until after the holidays to fire people, but this past year, they got rid of a bunch of people around Thanksgiving and many didn't get any severance pay.

There is extreme nepotism. The upper management hires their friends in the company or promotes them first. If one person doesn't like you, you will be fired quickly. They tend to keep the wrong people. If you suck up to the management and laugh at their jokes, you're more likely to stay even if you do no work. They don't mind drugs because they're so busy trying to be 'trendy' and 'hip' but I guess depending on how you look at it, that could be a good thing. Don't expect a raise. They always make up excuses to not giving one. I was there over a year, but since I changed departments, I wasn't eligible for a raise since I wasn't in that position for 6 months once they gave raises out. They baby the upper management. They say they want everyone to think outside of the box, but if you do, you will be fired. They are very strict in the way they work and don't like change. I was helping with a project once and the comms uppers said "this will be great for your portfolio when you leave the company or find a new job." Since I wasn't looking for a new job, I had a strange feeling that he probably meant when I get fired, which I was with no warning 2 weeks later. Don't offer to help with more than your job because they will scrutinize you and blame you for things that aren't your control and managers will throw you under the bus if the project you volunteered for doesn't work out.