Goldstar Events Reviews

Pros

*Company does its best to keep as many team members as possible informed and leaves spaces for people to contribute ideas. *Great benefits. *Supportive supervisors. *Fun and engaging company culture.

Cons

*Some major changes in the organization often came with long hours and difficult shifts in employee expectations, but I imagine this would be difficult for any organization.

Pros

Great work culture, amazing perks and incentives, and access to events.

Cons

The company is growing quickly and the tasks/role you were hired for might change.

Pros

* CEO has a strong vision of where the company is headed * More than fair pay * All 3 co-founders still leading the company after 15 years * Profitable * Generally intelligent and hard-working people * Fun culture * Company actually does something valuable and useful and is the best in that space

Cons

* Definitely some favoritism. There's a few specific employees that seem to have gotten promoted really high up for no apparent reason other than they are liked by top management. * Sales people aren't called sales people (venue advisors), which is weird. They therefore don't get trained like you'd expect salespeople to be trained.

Advice to Management

* More disciplined performance reviews with specific goals that actually get reviewed regularly. Base promotions and salary on that rather than who you really really like. * Provide more opportunities for career advancement by actually asking employees what their career goals are and working with them to achieve them.

Pros

* Good balance of "Deploy often" and "Release when it's ready" * Supportive of developer sponsored work * Nice employee hardware, comfortable work space

Cons

* Some of the engineering team was split between their two main offices and remote workers, making communication/collaboration a tad more difficult

Pros

excellent benefits, friendly yet intense work environment great organization of company excellent managers very transparent great office culture awesome CEO ownership never gets complacent and we're always looking for new ways to improve

Cons

sometimes the quality of events they bring on is on the lower end which means the sales work to be done can be a bit uninspiring. This changes as

Pros

Nice coworkers, fun event hook ups

Cons

They've lost all concept of work life balance and lost the great company culture that made Goldstar a fun place to be and somewhere you were proud to work for.

Advice to Management

Fix the work life balance

Pros

The company culture and people you get to come to work with each day make it an exciting place to spend your work week. From happy hour celebrations, free lunches and bagel day it's just a fun, happy place to be. The benefits package is also incredible.

Cons

Due to the fast-paced nature of the job where meeting aggressive sales goals are of utmost importance, stress levels can run high. It definitely keeps you on your toes and is great for those who thrive on the hustle and bustle

Pros

Company culture is strong Business is growing Good hardware to use Flexible with time off

Cons

The structure for software development planning could be a bit loose for some.