What is the salary like at Go Local Interactive?

Friendly coworkers, collaborative workspace, nice office space

Pay is awful, gossip and cliques, no autonomy, negligent management, very bad business outlook, no upward mobility

Some of my lower-level coworkers were ok before they got quiet fired or left because this place is terrible.

I worked here for more than a year and here’s what I saw across all departments and levels of expertise consistently . 1.) NO LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITY. This company doubled in size from 2022 to 2023, and made no effort to train the new members of its work force in any meaningful way. They hired a huge internship pool in 2023, paying them more than some of their full-time employees got paid which turned out to be roughly 1/4 million dollars, and then when they couldn’t replicate their 2022 successes on a larger scale (because this crop of new hires and interns was expected to be trained by the employees that were already overloaded while working for clients in downward trending markets), so they cut more than 10% of the jobs in the company to save their annual profit margins. They could have invested in those people, but they didn’t and chose to ruin their lives with no warning or apology or acknowledgement of fault. Less than a month later, they instituted a department ranking system so at any given moment, they knew each employee’s value. At a company meeting 3 weeks later, they bragged about still being ‘healthy’ and made it out to be the fault of those terminated because they ‘weren't meeting expectations’. I was in a management role, and not all those people were performing poorly. It was strictly messaged that way to save face. 2.) LOW SALARIES, NO CULTURE, BARELY ANY GOOD BENEFITS. They will pay you way less than you are worth and expect you to carry an impossible account load. If you’re even remotely competent, you’ll also be expected to train new hires with no room for it in your task load. You will be expected to track every second of time worked and will receive more work than you can possibly actually complete. Then you’ll also be tracked on the deadlines you meet and you’ll have to fight tooth and nail to make sure those deadlines are reasonable. Spoiler, YOU WILL NOT GET ANY HELP. IF YOU ASK FOR HELP, YOU MIGHT AS WELL SIGN YOUR OWN PINK SLIP. Oh! And the company refuses to allow remote/hybrid work more than once a week because the owners just don’t trust employees to do their work. I also personally think it’s actually because they wanted to lease a bigger building (like they had something to prove) and want to actually use it when they could have eliminated the office altogether and saved on the overhead costs. They want to maintain the old ways and have no interest in adapting to modern, healthy work culture. 3.) NO PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. This company will preach that it’s a premiere agency to its new hires, walk you through a day of orientation about the agency and its history, and then does absolutely nothing to nurture its new employees. That’s left up to managers who have zero time because they’re still managing their own accounts on top of their teams. So then it’s pushed to the high level specialists who are not officially told they need to work after hours, but usually do if they want to keep their jobs. 4.) THERE IS NO DIVERSITY OR INCLUSIVITY. Look at the reviews left and their demographics. This company seldomly appeared to make an effort to hire anyone that doesn’t look like the able-bodied white, male CEOs that are Christian. God forbid you ask for anything to help you do your job if you have any mental or social impediments like anxiety or auditory processing impairments. 5.) THEY DON’T FOLLOW THEIR OWN HANDBOOK AND THERE IS NO SOP. If for any reason, your performance is an issue, they won’t give you the specifics or chance to make it right like they claim in the handbook. They may tell you what’s expected of you, but they won’t tell you how to get there, i.e. if you are having trouble with a new process, they won’t give you written instructions to get better. They will simply tell you you’re not doing well and to fix it ASAP, and expect that fix instantaneously. They will not give you any written warnings like their handbook states, but rather, they will tell you on Friday to get better and then walk you out on Monday if it isn’t. SUMMARY: There’s more than I could go on about. But bottom line is DO MOT WORK HERE. GLI will claim it’s a lovely place to work but that’s because the only people who have a decent work-life balance and salary are the C-suites and tenured employees who were there before they became a company with any merit more than 7 years ago.

Good team, good, supportive manager

One of the few places with no commission: you'll be worked hard for an average salary

Good pay for an intern

Not much opportunity, busy work

Access to technology/software, exposure to hyper-local SEO, great coworkers, insight into other departments/finances. My direct manager was always great and pleasant.

They don't invest in current employees, they expect top-notch above and beyond work all the time. My workload was almost always around the 60 hour mark in my 40 hour work week. For product team members (SEO, Content, Paid Media), you're expected to fix issues that arise from other departments due to incorrectly sold packages, errors from web department, etc. and if you don't, you're grilled by upper management. The company tends to get ideas in their heads, fulfill product development (often without much testing), then decide that they're discontinuing that product. They dangle opportunities in front of you and tell you to wait until your year anniversary for promotions/pay raises only to find out you're keeping the same title and only getting a 4% bump in pay. They don't give you access to the proper equipment to perform your job duties. Computers are always 5+ years old and too slow to run certain necessary applications. If you enjoy working from home, know you will be judged by executives for taking your allowed 2 days/week even though some of them are fully remote. Their new business direction is very bad. Everyone's roles are being merged into the same thing with management that doesn't know how to perform all those positions' individual roles. The CEO made everyone move upstairs in the office so he could play hardball with the landlord for his new lease negotiation. The CEO constantly talks about OpenClaw, but does not give resources for team members to access it. What they do have setup is very partial and causes many more issues for product team members to fix. You accrue PTO very slowly and benefits are not good. They changed to be very expensive for those that are not single individuals. Only 2 weeks of paid leave for p/maternity (new 2026). Depressing office environment. Very cliquish. Its obvious that Sales and Tech departments are the favorites for leadership and constantly seem to not have the same rules as product team members or strategy team members. If you love nepotism, its very rewarded with this company. If you count on getting some fresh-out-of-school experience, being micromanaged by leadership, love doing busy work, ok with lower than average pay for the amount of work you do, then this is the company for you. If you count on getting cost of living raises, title promotions, good benefits, accommodations for personal situations, access to certifications/trainings, building a strong career at this company, look somewhere else.

There is nothing about this job that I enjoyed.

Literally everything. Bad management, disorganized, horrible pay, etc.

Good people, Nice building, ya

Poor Pay, heavy work load

People are friendly and atmosphere is nice

I was told in my interview this was a great place to learn and grow, but no one thoroughly trained me and was expected to just figure it out. They highly boast about promotions, but it will either be unfilled or little pay to represent.

Opportunities for fresh college students as they're always hiring due to a high employee turnover.

Everything with management, excluding John. High expectations and workloads for a terrible salary. Terrible work culture. I was given a promotion to another team, only to be refused to do the work for that team, and forced to work where I previously was. I was refused an exit interview to share what had happened. There is a complete disregard for employees. It's all about how much they can make.

Relaxed dress code and great coworkers

Go Local is one of the most poorly managed companies I have ever experienced. They push the sales team make promises to prospects that are unreasonable and cannot be met then yell at the product teams when their unrealistic expectations cannot be met. Once clients realize this, they leave and for good reason. Management does not value the opinions of their employees and dangle promotions in front of their employees to prompt them to “work harder” when in reality they are using employees and forcing them to do the work of 3-4 people. They also gaslight their employees and scold them for “being too negative” rather than try to solve the issues at hand. When I brought up issues on the content team in regard to poor training and the poor quality of the writing itself, I was told my issues were irrelevant only to get scolded by ownership for those exact issues. Go Local exploited young professionals and makes them believe that this is normal and the wages they are receiving are fair when in reality the wages are not livable, and the workload is unreasonable. This company needs to downsize exponentially to rebuild from the ground up if they are ever going to make it further. I am honestly not quite sure how they made it as long as they have.