Not Worth It - Anonymous employee YouVisit Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You'll get to see how NOT to run a business. Very passionate CTO who wants to make awesome things. Virtual reality is great...but it's only a small part of what YouVisit does. Free lunch twice a month. The company pays for health insurance, but it's laughably bad insurance. There's been a few attempts at activities, but there wasn't enough thought put into them. There are a lot of very talented and smart people. But they are all just waiting to jump ship.

Cons

Employees are severely underpaid and chronically overworked. YouVisit is the type of place that wants you to work harder not smarter. Extremely high expectations. This wouldn't be bad, if employees were compensated fairly and treated like people and not widgets. There's a high level of micromanagement from senior leaders who more often than not have no idea what they're talking about. No transparency into how decisions are made or how the company is preforming. Authoritarian management who demands respect, but hasn't earned it. No equity. But management expects absolute buy in. No room for career advancement. Lack of resources. Good luck getting access to vital programs or even a decent computer. Disguising facility. There's a 50/50 chance the plumbing won't work everyday. Dirty and grim covers everything. The CEO lives in Florida and has no clue about what is actually happening in the office. Monthly pay checks because it's "an inconvenience" to do it every two weeks. A general disregard for honesty. Lots of talk but very little follow through.

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5.0
Jan 27, 2024
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Pros

Amazing opportunity to travel and collaborate with great people

Cons

I wish we had more travel and tourism-based clients, but other than that, I loved working at Youvisit.

2.0
Jun 28, 2017
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Pros

Fun and interesting technology Casual office, typical of the tech industry in NYC Was on a team with really wonderful and smart people

Cons

Disorganization at the c-suite level. CTO, CEO, and CFO all seemed to want different things and push their own agenda, which in turn trickled down to the teams that reported to them respectively, often times with major oversights and conflicts that had real consequences for both employees and clients No real company culture and lots of 'rah rah!' talk about working together as one company but then focuses were almost immediately shifted to one team or another. No real foresight about the ability to grow and scale a company like this - more and more clients were being brought on but there was not nearly enough staff being hired to manage it and current employees were overloaded then penalized for not being able to keep up if something fell through the cracks. Little to no career development or opportunity for advancement. Compensation was a bit of a joke - while medical/dental/vision premiums were covered 100%, the plans themselves were garbage, no 401K or retirement plans, no equity, and low starting salaries for the experience/skills needed. The office space itself was not modern, pretty dirty/unkempt, and often times reeked because of the plumbing issues in the building.

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