Bodybuilding.com Reviews

Pros

Very face paced and exiting place with very smart and easygoing people.

Cons

Very few, but benefits are so so, the pay is average, which attracts more entry level tallent, which the expectations are to attract seniors.

Advice to Senior Management

Review your conpensation and beneffits strategy. There has to be a correlation beetwin sallary and experience, either lower experience expectations or increase base sallary. Why? Becuase the average you've been offering will attract junior/mid level engeneers mostly, since the offered sallary is what many seniors are already making in their current places. By increasing the average by 15% to 25%, you'll have more chances to attract seniors, otherwise lower expectations.

Pros

Awesome benefits including reading program, fitness & health club reimbursement, educational & certification reimbursement, amazing corporate culture and lifestyle-oriented employees, fantastic career potential in the mid-2000's before sold out to Liberty media.

Cons

Management has lost its focus on the customer and taken short-sighted actions that have decreased market share and negatively impacted the shopping experience, especially for International customers. Management is ego-driven and greedy, consolidating power into very few hands at the top to control the flow of information and hoarded power. This has stifled creativity and created a workplace that is oppressed and unlikely to voice opinions or contribute wholly for fear of conflict and subsequent retaliation by the power elite.

Advice to Senior Management

Return to the roots of the company, the CUSTOMER. Every idea, initiative, action should positively impact the shopping experience from placing the order on the site to receiving the product quickly, without surprises and undamaged. Your market share is not secure w/out the customer, don't ever forget that. The cost of shipping or pleasing the parent company matters, but significantly less than your real shareholders.

Pros

Great people to work with. Great Customer Service!

Cons

CEO appears to only want "YES" people. Slow to make decisions. Will reorganize personnel in a heart beat

Advice to Senior Management

To become a billion dollar company. Stick to goals and do not change direction

Pros

What an amazing company! Working at the corporate office was truly the epitome of a transformative life experience. I got in better shape.

Cons

I now only accept employment where people treat each other with respect and integrity. This value applies to the individuals on my team, my manager, and the corporate leadership.

That corporate front door should really be replaced with a revolving door.

Pros

Good life/work balance.
Company is growing and successful in a time where other companies are hurting.
Good chance to learn new things.

Cons

Company is growing faster than is good for it.
Company culture is suffering as managers are brought in from the outside; managers who don't get or respect the culture.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire managers from the ranks of the company thus assuring a good fit with the culture.
Give managers a 1 year tryout. If they don't perform, demote them or send them packing.
Don't grow faster than you have competent managers you can count on.

Pros

They really do promote fitness and using social media, phone apps, media and advertising to try and help those trying to be fit. They even had a gym program for employees.

Cons

Their website is hard to navigate and they aren't very friendly in the office to women.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue. Stop micromanaging employees and let them do the work they are best at. Find a focus and keep with it, don't change it on a whim.

Pros

Decent salary for the valley, and there are some fun people who work here (depending on the department of course)

Cons

Leadership takes an unbelievable amount of time to make simple decisions
The work is often thankless. Stellar jobs are rarely recognized as such (only met with "didn't you do better?")
The company strongly encourages working ridiculous hours, and far too much value is placed in quantity of work instead of quality of work.

Pros

Excellent benefits, exciting work, great community, fair management, career development opportunities, amazing bonus structure, great transparency from leadership and motivating, talented people are everywhere you look.

Cons

If you're in sync with the fitness industry and enjoy being healthy, working in a proactive and creative environment, then there are no downsides. If you don't like commuting to Meridian every day though, that would be one.

Advice to Senior Management

Thank you for your great support and commitment to your employees. Your leadership and management styles today are telling of a company that truly values its employees and their work.

Pros

This question is simple and easy to answer. Bodybuilding.com is a very positive environment loaded with talented and like-minded people. There are several career growth opportunities as the company is growing by leaps and bounds each year. There is not a better and more customer focused leadership team out there and it just flows all the way to entry level. Everybody has a strong belief in each other and continuously recognize and support each other. Hands down, it is the best company to work for period!

Cons

There is a small lack of communication in between departments but it has become much better over the last several months.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing!