JoVE reviews

Don't know where to begin so I'll just start rambling off a list: CEO is a crazy person Management has 0 idea what they're doing No room for professional growth or improvement Location of office is crappy General vibe of office is morose Did I mention that management is horrible? Basically, this is a great stepping stone. DO NOT come here expecting to make great money and grow professionally. The CEO is unpleasant and untrustworthy, management is quick to throw employees under the bus to cover their own mistakes (so much finger pointing going on here, I don't even think people actually even remember whose fault it was originally). They're so obsessive about hours here, it's bordering on insanity (no concept of efficiency or productivity at all). If you are not IN YOUR SEAT from 9 am to 5 pm, management has an absolute meltdown and you are given a stern talking to EVERY. TIME. Oh and if you commute and don't own a car that's safe to drive in the snow, plan on driving to work anyways regardless of if a state of snow emergency is declared. The CEO expects everyone at their desks, irrespective of unsafe driving conditions, despite this being a job that you could perform from THE MOON if you had a phone and an internet connection. Scoring for JoVE is as follows 0 efficiency. 0 logic. 0 time worth wasting here. It's so unfortunate because these people are supposed to be brainy-scientists/smart people but literally, the smart people get silenced and inevitably end up leaving and doing a jig out the door...

I'll emphasize some cons that fellow employees have highlighted, but having spent this past winter in Boston I wanted to address an issue I think speaks volumes about the management at the company and I haven’t really seen anyone mention. If you experienced this winter in Boston, and had any type of commute whatsoever to your place of work then those weeks may be a bitter memory for you. At JoVE this stands out to me as one of the biggest signs of disrespect and disregard for their employees. People have mentioned how those 9-5 hours are rigid and if you aren't in your seat at 9 then you most likely are spoken to or pulled aside over your tardiness. Couple that with a crippled transit system, white out conditions and a dangerous commute. The only time your absence from the office was allowed was when there was a state of emergency and there was NO public transit and you couldn’t legally be on the road. Now obviously the company is not required to close or issue work form home days when the weather is rough, but when a fellow coworker of mine was faced with the option of shoveling out their car for close to an hour, and driving in more than difficult road conditions, and then would have been 2+ hours late to work, common sense says work from home....but not at JoVE. She was told she had to take a personal day if she could not make it in to the office because employees can’t be trusted to do their jobs while not under the watch of their managers. While that is well within the rights of the CEO to demand, I think that a prospective hire should know what to expect come winter. On to some other expectations. Sales is a high pressure job no question about that and always has been. But my past experiences have never left me with a fear for my job almost weekly. It didn’t matter that in publishing the sales cycle should be quarterly vs monthly, or that your territory was already saturated, or that almost every 3 months the CEO had a new idea how to structure the Sales team and its offerings. If you didn’t hit your numbers, you got a warning followed by the door. The managers did their best they could to shield you from it, and make the lemonade out of lemons, but at the end of the day what the CEO says goes. If you can stomach that kind of pressure and unrealistic expectations, then maybe the above Pros are good enough for you. And I could keep going on and on, but at the end of the day its already been said before. Some reviews on here look to be personal, but they aren’t wrong.