- To echo another review, you will have no life outside of work if you work at BIMM. 80 hours really isn't a joke - after work until 1am, weekends, holidays, sick days, you will work. There's is no over time or lieu time. There have been some serious mental health issues that have come up from staff as a result that everyone knows about. This is not a secret and I'm surprised the CEO left a response saying otherwise.
- Upper management feels that working over holidays and weekends is normal and not an exception, so much so they laugh about the "good times" when they worked over Christmas, and the Christmas before that last minute. There are no plans to fix it and countless people have left because of it.
- As a result of the above, it's not a great place for anyone looking to work the odd long day or weekend and have hobbies, have a family, etc.
- The healthcare plan is very expensive and the lowest package is still very expensive but has very few benefits included in it.
- There no resources to up your skills internally. BIMM staff who have been there for 2 years or longer have outdated skills and are outpaced by new staff quickly (which is maybe why you see tenures of <1.5 years or 5+ years). The issue is the skilled staff don't stick around very long, or are so overworked there's no time for them to train others. Those that train others aren't paid to do so but added to their work loads.
- Extreme growing pains when it comes to modernizing. Upper management is very out of touch of what is happening outside of traditional media and when it comes to anything technology related are out of their depth.
- High turnover has been difficult on the team morale overall and management doesn't seem to be able to prevent it (see above).
- Pay is lower than market rate.