Liquidity Services Reviews

I worked at Liquidity Services full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The company is making strides and has come a long way

Cons – It needs a lot of work on culture, leadership programs and advancement opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to provide support to their employees and good, clear direction.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Liquidity Services full-time

Pros – DC office location
Good Networking opportunities
Stock Price looks bullish

Cons – -internal politics
-senior management does not know where to draw the line between politeness and impoliteness
-hypocrisy
- poor compensation and benefits.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior Executives need to focus more on middle management. If you expect people to run the extra mile, then reward them for it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Liquidity Services full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice office location in downtown DC

Cons – Needed to clean up the data first, a lot of manual work

Advice to Senior Management – Nothing to say

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Liquidity Services full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The company experiments with different things. The experiments fail more often than not, and I found those failures to be much more instructive than our successes. I learned a lot about business during my time there.

Cons – If you are interviewing at LSI, ask this question to every person you see: are you happy here? Watch their body language as they answer and draw your own conclusions.

I would estimate that 50% are miserable, 20% are very unhappy, and the remaining 30% don't particularly care about work ("whatever, it's a job").

Advice to Senior Management – You wrestle with the question of why your people underperform. It's because they are unhappy. They are unhappy because of your management style. You have managers who take pride in making people cry. You know this and yet you hold them up as examples of top performers.

To the CEO, inter divisional politics are tearing your company apart from the inside. You need to take a more active role to get things back on track.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Liquidity Services

Pros – Senior management wants to create a world class operation. Many of them have had previous success at other e-commerce companies and want to translate that to LSI.

Cons – Unorganized and occasionally schizophrenic style of leadership would describe the approach taken to change. When everything is top priority, nothing is a priority. The culture, for having the stock at an all time high, is strangely negative.

Advice to Senior Management – Work on changing the culture to a positive one. Try to retain employees and stop poaching employees from one particular e-commerce company. Learn the business, as it is unique. Learn from your mistakes.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Liquidity Services

Pros – Office location in downtown Washington.

Cons – Poor company culture. The company is highly fragmented, which is unusual due to its small size. Resources are spread thin amongst a portfolio of failing projects.

Company is a one trick pony, and that one trick can easily be made obsolete.

Company has had 10+ years of failure when attempting to compete with its peers in the open market.

Advice to Senior Management – Consolidate operations and technology. Encourage more hands on management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Liquidity Services

Pros – This company is a good company to work for. They have a fairly good lock on the market and give a good opportunity to grow. Like any job the work you put in will be worth it. Also the DC office is located close to the metro and right around a nice area.

Cons – The only small downside of working here was the somewhat fragmented because departments did not have a lot of direct interaction.

Advice to Senior Management – Currently the company seems to have the business market locked down pretty well but I feel that expansion into the personal market could be very beneficial.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Liquidity Services

Pros – - fast paced, entrep
- smart, motivated workforce
-lots to do

Cons – - hard to put structure in place

Advice to Senior Management – none

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Liquidity Services

Pros – Good work life balance, I felt like I still had a lot of support even when I went part time. Team was very cohesive.

Cons – Some of the middle management personnel weren't extremely competent.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't really have a lot of advice.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Liquidity Services

Pros – Great work environment, technical field, growing business, lots of growth opportunities, casual attire and attitude. I have a short commute to and from work. The upper management is really in tune with all aspects of the business, and very flexible with capital. We are continually searching for new avenues of business, and delving into new areas of the market. There is absolutely a "no fear" attitude when it comes to taking on new projects or companies. This is a global business and we continue to grow by leaps and bounds.

Cons – The pay is not the greatest, but it is comparable to surrounding business.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work, keep gathering more and more business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend