CEO is participating in shady business practices and the karma trickles down throughout the company
Pros
They’ll pay for Salesforce.com related certifications which are highly useful at other companies. You can make really close friends due to all the trauma you experience.
Cons
This place tries really hard to mimic a great company but fails miserably at everything. It is true that males are allowed to sexually harass female employees without retribution. Of all the cases I heard about, probably more than 10, only one male was fired and it wasn’t even because he was a sexual harasser. They purposefully hire young people that have no idea what an office environment should be like, this is why the sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior is rampant. I’ve had managers tell me very disturbing things about their personal life as if I was their psychotherapist. Also a lot of employees use hard drugs during work hours because EBQ doesn’t drug test or background check, they also watch explicit material on their work computers, and packs of them vape right next to the entryways. The CEO seems like he has no idea what’s he’s doing and a lot of his ideas seem randomized and tend to backfire in the end. I initially thought he was making the changes to better the company but I eventually realized its mostly for personal gain. All the leadership is Mormon and they created a glass ceiling that doesn’t allow non-Mormons to get too high up in the company. Director is the highest you can go if you’re not Mormon and some people reach that in under 6 months, they get paid extremely low as directors (some make under $100k/yr). Probably because they don’t have any experience and are very green. They have a monthly bonus system in place but it only goes to people in leadership roles, but even with that, the salaries are abysmal. They constantly fire here no matter what your position, experience, or skill level is. They fired the most experienced person in my department which then caused a lot of people to quit. There’s really no point in being here longer than a year. The CEO makes everyone participate in an all hands meeting where he toots his own horn and waits for applause. Meanwhile there were constant assaults and a guy even brandished a gun in the parking lot and it was never publicly acknowledged. They’re moving to a new building soon, but we are still expected to squeeze in a hot break room for this meeting. They’re forced to leave the current building because the CEO is interested in growing the company rapidly for PR purposes (I.e. get on Inc 5000 list), and there’s no parking for other building residents and visitors. At one point they asked new employees to park a block away to create additional spots, no one listened and the lot is still jammed packed. Management meetings are never about increasing revenue or creating better workflow strategies but instead involve talking about ways to further micromanage employees. The HR department is a joke. People constantly complain about the sexual harassment and nothing is done about it. I’m just waiting for the day I hear about this company finally being sued. The CEO keeps breaking the company off to smaller companies and forcing employees to join the seed companies. I’m not a financial advisor, but I’m sure it’s just a way for him to pay off debts or something. At one of his seed companies almost everyone quit, when they quit they had to relinquish their present management role and go back to being a specialist at EBQ. The publicly acknowledged seed companies are called Learning Curv and TechVar. Stay away. I expect 3 - 4 five star reviews to offset my singular one star review. But don’t believe the hype. This place is awful.
