Spartan Race reviews

No leadership, no one at the top recognizes where change needs to take place so those who are in it day in and day out are just left spinning their wheels. Benefits are a joke...they try to entice you with a half-decent vacation policy but there is no tolerance whatsoever for "working from home" (unless you're senior management), no flex hours, and sick time is deducted from your PTO. Priorities are in the wrong order across the board. So much money is unnecessarily wasted at races because there aren't any processes in place to track or streamline. But instead of putting energy and resources in to change that, money is just continually thrown at new projects. Finally, everyone is so overworked. It's considered normal and even expected of you to be at work far more than required, but it goes far beyond that too. There's actually nowhere to sit and eat your lunch other than your own desk or out of the office. But if you take some time to eat outside the office and are gone for a minute longer than 60, it doesn't go unnoticed. "Working through lunch" is very much considered the norm. The place is a revolving door and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

The pay is humiliating. Upper management is a joke. Certain people are in positions that they have absolutely no business being in, and they only got there because they pushed, shoved, or manipulated their way into those roles. 10 days of PTO is all you get, and even then, you are made to feel incredibly guilty for ANY time taken out of the office, whether it's PTO, taking a long lunch for a doctor's appointment, and you can forget about working from home. Even during the blizzards, you were expected to make it into the office, whether or not your trains were running, or it was a dangerous drive to work, no matter how long it took you. Extremely inefficient if you ask me. The CEO is completely unrealistic and considers it a privilege for you to work for the company, and doesn't understand why more employees aren't falling asleep at their desks from working 20 hour days. In addition to being expected to stay late every night at the office, if you work a race weekend, you can expect to work 20 hour days on 3 hours of sleep per night (or less), and you will only get ONE comp day for a 40 hour work weekend. And again, you will be guilt-tripped if you take it. Overall, extremely toxic, demeaning, demotivating environment, and you will never be promoted or moved up unless you're a bully and shove yourself in there. It's a shame, because there are some great people there, but they will continue to lose those people if they don't make some changes.