Abstrakt Marketing Group Reviews

Cons

The Landing has room to improve but its definitely on the move and will be much different within the next year

Cons

• Make sure you negotiate your salary for the amount you really want. The recruiter will tell you that they do raises every 6 months, it's not true.

• Disappointingly wasteful. A company size of nearly 300 employees that made $19.5 million in annual revenue last year told me that they don't recycle anything besides paper "due to the costs." They throw away everything out of convenience and it shows that they only care about cutting costs to save money.

• They will try to take advantage of you to try to get you to do more advanced work than you were hired for with no extra pay.

• Don't take any promotion promises. If you deliver they won't. I would recommend getting official paperwork or talking to HR before working any additional hours for promised pay, otherwise you are likely not getting it.

• The refrigerator is a police state from the maintenance staff. They will go out of their way to throw your food away to prove a point. Sometimes by showing up early or a later additional time to the scheduled refrigerator clean out.

• Improving processes and advancing their product will get you nowhere in terms of raises or promotions. Your position will be the same whether you do it or not.

• The "culture" is all forced. If you say you don't want to do something, they will tell you it's mandatory or talk to you about not having the right attitude. Most of the requirements being pointless and meaningless time wasting activities and roles they want you to do that have nothing to do with your actual job.

• No organization or communication whatsoever. So many problems and errors come up between departments because nothing is organized and communication is extremely poor. Fixing anything won't get you recognition.

Cons

None that I see unless you consider hard work to be a con.

Cons

IDOT and MODOT close bridges and make the commute difficult.

Cons

Here's how you know you've made it at Abstrakt. The reward for doing a good job is getting a bigger, tougher problem next time. Meaning, you are always solving the easiest problem you will ever solve again. This takes a lot of resilience and active managing of self-expectations to remember that you are not actually getting worse, the problems are just getting harder. So my advice is to remember that. And then take a second to realize that it would be a lot less fun if the reverse were true. And isn't that precisely why you wanted this job in the first place anyway? It sure was for me.

Cons

I occassionaly got bored of sitting and making calls all day.

Cons

- None that come to mind

Cons

Training is thin. Lots of unprofessional relationships.

Cons

Required to do a lot of extra work/ MAPs weekly

Cons

It’s the people the PSRs that keep you going you have some great assistant managers and a few that aren’t as great at managing people. They dangle the carrot a lot and make you jump through hoops only to discard how they promote people 6 months later. I guess that comes with the territory. This job is not for everyone. It’s cold calling 135 dials a day and if you don’t you’ll get texts from your manager at night why you didn’t do this or that. Also there is a huge disconnect from executive sales and the 5th floor PSRs. Executive team is setting expectations way too high for new clients. Need to start at a lower expectation and gradually work from that.