Bass Pro Shops Reviews

-understaffed (to keep costs down, believe it or not, at the HQ level some people still make less than $40,000) -overworked (most of the time you have one person managing a couple hundred million dollars in projects alone) -no process (no clear job descriptions, i.e., doing work well outside your job role) -no space (how does a company this big not have room??) -no career path (they suggest lateral movement - not advancement) -bad managers, it's a 'good ole boys' club at the top and most lack the management skills required -high turnover (over a third of my department has left in under a 2-year span) -no work-life balance (mandatory outside of work volunteer-told duties) -owner operated in which he cares more about NASCAR than the quality of his product -work culture is abysmal (most don't care, have lost all their passion, and actively hate their job) Teams aren't set up for success. Leaders in position come from an old-school way of thinking and aren't adaptive to today's climate. Odds are you will get burnt out and leave in a year, because Springfield, MO is in the middle of nowhere.

Oh where to start? IT leadership is perhaps the most poor example of executive leadership I have seen in my career. They operate under an assumption they know more than the people that do the work, they promise things by completely unrealistic dates and then work the people to the bone to deliver a product that is half-baked, all while claiming that the "business wouldn't let them go live but they delivered on time". Of course they wouldn't let it go live, it didn't work! For a particular project last year, the project team worked every weekend for a month and a half, only to deliver a product that wasn't even close to ready for production. That product has now been shelved. The IT group is woefully understaffed, most of that due to attrition because people can't stand to work here longer than a year or so. The expectations are insane without any reward offered. Management will promise you things they have no intention to deliver to keep you happy, but as soon as you put in notice be prepared to be treated as if you betrayed their trust. They'll act like petulant children and not speak to you your entire two week notice period. As a word of advice, if you don't want to deal with the hostility of the last two weeks, just leave when you have the other job secure. Honestly, they don't deserve notice, they wouldn't give it to you if it kept them from losing their jobs due to their mismanagement of a project or team. Recommend to a friend? I wouldn't recommend this place to a total stranger.