Beachbody Reviews

Cons

Beachbody still has some growing up to do. It’s widely known that Beachbody is considered to be in its adolescence phase of business. Being in this phase offers many challenges, but at the same time many opportunities for success. It’s important for existing workers and potential candidates to understand that this point in a company’s life cycle might not be for everybody. You need to understand that there will be challenges. Without a doubt I have all the faith in our management team to get us to the next level of Beachbody’s evolution.

Cons

There are definitely issues and challenges with Beachbody, but no more or less than any billion dollar company. I strongly feel the opportunities here outweigh the obstacles, otherwise I would not be here.

Cons

I can't think of any.

Cons

If looking to join a network marketing business, this isn’t where you should be building

Cons

outdated technology to managing e-commerce backend, there were some toxic management particularly a female tech engineer manager who would yell at employees but heard since I left they were let go.

Cons

How many characters do I have? When they interview you they are really really good on selling the company and technology stack. Let me tell you, it's mostly BS. Upper management has no idea what they are doing. The incompetent ones get promoted straight to the top. They are looking for yes men, don't question their direction or poor technology stack.

If you are looking for using current or even semi modern technology, PASS right now. They spent years and an obscene amount of money deploying an outdated Oracle platform. If they mention Docker, AWS, or anything that sounds modern.. It's really only being used in some tiny deployments, not their main platform. When they should be double downing on micro services, cloud, containers and other technology.. they are doing more Oracle, more Wordpress. So if you like 10 year old Oracle software, click Apply now! Just ask for a 12 month roadmap if you don't believe me.

Pro or Con, not sure which section to put this on. Con that all the good people are leaving, like by the day/week. Pro is that there are frequent going away Happy Hours.

On that subject, just read prior reviews. They have had to do mass layoffs multiple times because of not hitting numbers, and just hiring tons of people who do nothing.

Unlimited vacation is BS. They make it sound good, but in reality you'll never be able to take that time off. Read the fine print, unlimited means they don't have to pay you 1$ when you quit/fired because you won't accrue time off.

Cons

First, it should be a serious red flag to anyone who's reading these reviews to see this company has to 'sponsor' positive reviews (that they likely wrote themselves) to try deflect from the hundreds of seriously bad/highly accurate reviews from people who have worked for this company. Pay serious attention to the 'real' reviews because almost no-one who has left this company would ever endorse working here. Most employees are treated like highly disposable garbage, while the clueless CEO continues to run the company into the ground, supported by the equally inept CFO. Senior Mgmt at the C-Level, SVP and VP level are nothing more than glorified admin assistants to execute Carl's ridiculous business 'ideas' that continue to result in business suicide, with mass layoffs almost every year where the most talented and genuine people are typically shown the door. As an employee, you're warned to 'just do what Carl says' all the time by your boss, regardless of how ridiculous this 'plan' is. All these alleged senior level people are all 'YES' men and women who are only interested in protecting their own ridiculously inflated paychecks, and have zero interest in protecting their teams or ever doing the right thing by them. Take a look around the senior level people who are currently there - nepotism runs rampant, and if you're not in tight with a department head, you haven't a hope in hell of succeeding here regardless of how hard you work, or how loyal or talented you are. If you're smart and are vocal about bad decision-making, you're a target. Plus, the new fitness programs and nutrition products over this year and the past few years are terrible, and continue to tank. Beachbody is actually widely regarded as a joke in the outside professional world and is not useful on your resume, so be mindful of this too.

Cons

Toxic culture. No one collaborating or working as teams, all about protecting their own territory in fear of layoffs. Backstabbing is pervasive. Constant changes to plans midstream when the CEO thinks of a new idea for that day, which causes tons of wasted efforts on work already completed before approach is suddenly switched. Transition from DVD model to streaming model has gone terribly. MLM sales-first strategy to extract as much money as possible from customers is completely ineffective in subscription-based, engagement model. Company needs to be acquired by another company that knows how to run an effective modern business.

Cons

There's a reason the company goes through rounds of layoffs. Carl and Jon need to step aside. Especially Carl makes life stressful, openly ripping people apart in front of an audience. Rest of leadership just watches.

Cons

There is no leadership and no direction. The CEO is more worried about posting selfies and having a platform of a captive audience than letting people make decisions. There is no cohesion between departments. Instead of planning, money is wasted due to unrealistic timelines and awful operational planning.