eshots Reviews

2.6

41% would recommend to a friend

(48 total reviews)

Craig Steensma

52% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

eshots has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 48 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The eshots employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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48 reviews
1.0
23 Feb 2017

Resume addition of sinking ship

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Dress code; 401k matching; location - Chicago loop

Cons

Very high turnover! This place is like high school all over again. Company performance has declined exponentially. Consistently losing clients with no new business from Sales in over 12 months. CEO runs business on emotions with a handful of "his favorite" senior management in his ear telling him what to do to meet their individual agendas. Staff overall is unprofessional (for most eshots is their first job) and senior management take zero accountability, are disrespectful and passive aggressive. No career progression and no professional development whatsoever – they don’t care AND they can’t afford it.

1.0
27 Aug 2015

Out of control

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

eshots has a great office location and good office space if you are lucky enough to be near a window. Work from home Fridays and summer hours are great. The free coffee and fruit are also nice perks.

Cons

There is a big discrepancy between job responsibilities and salaries. Managers who do little get paid a lot and others who do it all, get paid nothing. Bad and unqualified managers are running the good employees out. There is no big picture with the company either. Everyday is a new problem, but instead of solving it, we point fingers and blame others.

1.0
17 Jan 2015

Get your feet wet, then run the hell out

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good environment overall, although theres a lot of negativity towards the company you can feel from all the employees. They have great people that work there and that are easy to get along with. Management is good at giving the illusion that they want to make everyone happy, and that they put in the effort to have "team" activities. They do offer good benefits once you're on full-time, and they have recently added new benefits like WFH every other friday and summer hours. You will get some good exposure if you're a newbie and looking for experience. But do not expect exciting work.

Cons

Like a lot of other reviews mention there are problems with upper management. Some of that comes from the fact that they do promote from within (rewarding loyalty), but that leaves some unqualified people making decisions that effect everyone. Other problems come from wasting resources on outside consultants to give advice, pep talks and sit in on executive positions to make company altering decisions. Executives are ok lying to employees about company performance and outlook. I really discourage any designer or developer from working here. They claim to innovate and work on new cutting edge applications. It couldn't be further from the truth. R+D works on maintaining a system of legacy apps that are constantly breaking, and they are rarely given the opportunity to work on new projects. Designers on the product team will end up supporting marketing and creating presentations. New products and features rarely see the light of day or even make it out of the product team. Rash decisions are made in terms of product development in a constant effort to meet client demands and compete with competitors. As a result solutions are built quickly and cheaply, often outsourced, with little to no thought into the design or architecture.

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