hibu Reviews in Pittsburgh, PA

Current Employee – been working at hibu

Pros – I believe it used to be a great place to work back in the day when yellowpages were respected and needed. Yellowbook had a great training program, IST, and reps. left energized and ready to make money. They used to offer a great base salary, $35,000 plus loads of commission and perks. Management worked side by side reps. and helped them all day long. The product line was simple but demanded. It was like stealing candy from a baby since our local competition was way over priced and hated. Local management was great and so supportive. They were trained properly and relayed that to the reps.

Cons – Yellowbook is scrambling to make its place in the new digital world. They offer bad simple websites and have virtually zero back end support from IT. They are adding so many products which, under a great company leadership, would be a good thing. However, they are adding things that are not up to par and the people making these decisions, have no clue on how to sell them and therefore, have no idea what they are doing. The company morale is at an all time low and all of management ignores it. Reps. are so pressured and threatened and as a result,only do what is needed to keep off of radar. This is what happens when a company changes it's strategy and atmosphere to one of fear of job loss. The current local base pay is a low $21,000/year. Almost half of what it was.

Advice to Senior Management – Strap a bag, laptop,on and go out and sell with a full assignment in the new digital Yellowbook. That way maybe you will understand the hell you put reps. through. Do it for more that a pre-planned ride day though. Why don't you start listening to reps. like Yellowbook used to do. That way you hear what is really going on instead of listening to only what your upper management tells you. They are so far out of the loop, it is sad. Try giving up your high base and regular pay and working for the type of paychecks your reps. get.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at hibu full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Colleagues were professional and hard-working

Cons – Company failed to replace dying print advertising business with a sustainable diversity of other business.

Advice to Senior Management – Have the courage to challenge those above you.

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