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    1. "The opportunity to make a real impact on a company while gaining valuable career experience."

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Bloomspot full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      - Innovative and collaborative team where ideas are heard, considered and implemented
      - Everyone is approachable throughout all management layers, including the Executive Team
      - Competitive and generous compensation for talented sales individuals and opportunities for career growth
      - Offer a great merchant and consumer facing product and represent a brand that provides a real marketing solution
      - Fast paced, start-up environment with a unique, fun culture
      - Every day is different

      Cons

      - Office layout is very open and can sometimes promote distractions
      - Systems and processes throughout the entire organization would benefit from more optimization and additional resources

      Advice to Management

      Invest in the team by providing on-going training and professional development tools for their areas of expertise.

    2. "Overall decent experience"

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      Former Employee - Account Executive in San Francisco, CA
      Former Employee - Account Executive in San Francisco, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Bloomspot (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great to be apart of the beginning stages of a start up, great sales experience

      Cons

      Poor leadership, over-zealous with hiring

    3. "Total fail."

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      Former Employee - Creative in San Francisco, CA
      Former Employee - Creative in San Francisco, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Bloomspot full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      They knew how to hire. Despite rampant mismanagement at the top, Bloomspot had assembled a ground-level team of exceptional individuals who bonded easily and worked well together. i wasn't there long, but I made several lifelong friendships there - everybody did.

      Cons

      Literally everything else. The work/life balance was appalling, management often behaved inappropriately, and even at a distance (i was a Creative there) it was obvious that the founders were totally delusional about money, resources, and their own product.

      Advice to Management

      This place is now defunct (surprise!!!) so my advice is to anyone who might join a startup run by one of the ex-founders: tread carefully.

    4. "Great place to work when things were great. Had multiple rounds of layoffs so it was not fun then."

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      Current Employee - Marketing Manager in San Francisco, CA
      Current Employee - Marketing Manager in San Francisco, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      Pros

      always attracted very talented people. great location. good food.

      what was great about this place is that it was fantastic to work during the good days when people were not being laid off.

      Cons

      no new ideas. just copying other companies to try to make money will only take you so far. multiple rounds of layoffs certainly didn't help.

    5. "Nightmare of a job"

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      Current Employee - Account Executive in San Francisco, CA
      Current Employee - Account Executive in San Francisco, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      Pros

      Great co-workers, lots of food and snacks, in the bay area, walking distance to coffee.

      Cons

      Crazy management, they made promises they could not keep. Always changing policies, goals. Very unstable environment.

      Advice to Management

      Stop lying to your staff. I would highly encourage anyone reading this to not move for this job. They could care less about people and it shows.

    6. "overall pretty good"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      smart, nice people. great perks. good office vibe.

      Cons

      consistently directionless, lost little puppy

    7. "Fun company at one point, but always chaotic"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      Pros

      There were definitely good moments at Bloomspot. The people were always great; hard-working, motivated, intelligent. During the peak times, it was a fun although exhausting experience. I learned more in those few months than I ever had.

      Cons

      Ultimately, it wasn't to be. The industry as a whole is dying, and there was no difference there. Leadership was never the best, and often made shortsighted decisions that would hurt in the long term. However, it ultimately would not have mattered.

    8. "Great People, Company had wrong priorities"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Bloomspot full-time

      Pros

      The people are great. Flexible hours, some catered food.
      Overall the company has a good "feel" and culture. The company is small enough to get access to the high-level executives.

      Cons

      Way too much prioritization of the "short-term". The company constantly focuses to hit THIS month's numbers without any regard to next month.
      Sales compensation structure often doesn't coincide with the company's ultimate goals.
      Tech resources & capabilities are way behind industry-standard.

    9. "Great environment for the self-directed and ambitious"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in San Francisco, CA
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Bloomspot full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Leadership always looking for ambitious employees to take ownership over key employee processes and take seriously all suggestions regarding improving systems, process, and/or culture. Most teams have some real stars who make working with them a real pleasure; these same people also ensure that things that need getting done, get done.

      At its core, Bloomspot culture is also positive and self-affirming (though there have been rough patches - see cons). The folks here are supportive of each other and the senior leadership are among the teams greatest cheerleaders.

      Cons

      Though the strategic vision and high-level direction from the C-suite has been consistent, day-to-day and week-to-week priorities can shift. Also, following a round of layoffs in 2011 career growth suffered as people became more narrowly tied to their roles.

      Advice to Management

      Bringing on good people comes with benefits and costs. Benefit is you get great people who can do fast and impactful work. The cost is you have to work to keep them interested. Ensuring that folks across the team have interesting projects, rather than just day-to-day work is of the utmost importance to keep them engaged - even when the company is focused on just keeping the ship moving forward.

    10. "Amazing company to work for in an exciting space with an incredible team!"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Account Executive in San Francisco, CA
      Current Employee - Account Executive in San Francisco, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Great team of smart, forward-thinking, collaborative, creative, FUN people
      Competitive salary and OTE; generous commissions & spiffs
      No micro-management
      Excellent work/life balance; if you are hitting your sales goals there is a lot of flexibility around setting your own schedule
      Dog-friendly!
      Lunch and snacks provided throughout the week
      Open door policy with executive team; employees are encouraged to share ideas, suggestions, concerns, etc.
      CEO with an incredible vision who is transforming this space
      Great location

      Cons

      Typical start-up kinks
      Questionable employee promotion process between Account Executives and Senior Account Executives; there is no documented process that lays out the steps to promotion and expected abilities at each step (there are some AEs consistently outperforming Senior AEs)