SMS.AC
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- San Diego
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- Internet, Media
- Career Website:
- http://corp.sms.ac/?page_id=115
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I worked at SMS.ac for a whole year and went through many rounds of layoffs. The company philosophy is to prune branches that aren't producing excellence. That being said if you can stay around after seeing all the desks around you clear out, you should be pretty confident in your skillz. I took the job thinking it could be the next Google, but instead it was a great resume booster. Believe me if you can say that you've worked a year at SMS.ac/Fanbox you can get a job anywhere in SD. I'm not saying that the job was great and I didn't feel like quitting every week. However, free food and beer (on Fridays and weekends), cool people, and awesome experience made up for it in the end. Also, that feeling you get when you put in your resignation and walk out the back door is truly euphoric, only those who have experienced it know what I mean.
A Land Mine
Software Consultant at SMS.AC
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- Contractor
- Location:
- San Diego
- Submitted by:
- Anonymous
- Date:
- Sat Jun 14 2008
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I worked at this place for 4 days and 2hrs. That is right, I had to give up a good opportunity in Houston because my consulting company wanted to work here. If you are consultant you work in a basement. I was told by my fellow consultants that it is hard to survive 3 months in this place. On the 5th day there was a massive lay-off of the consultants (at the same time they were having all kinds of Open houses for new kids to join the company). Stay away from this place for all good reasons. You dont have to work insane hours and be abused to become good in the craft, you have to join the right company whose business model is fair and innovative at the same time you are treated with dignity.
Get out of there while you can
Slave at SMS.AC
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- Full-time
- Location:
- San Diego
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- Anonymous
- Date:
- Tue Jun 03 2008
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Get out of there while you can! I did and what a relief it is. They work you like a slave and treat you like crap. Don't subject yourself to those lowlifes. This is probably the worst job I've ever taken. Consider yourself warned.
WORST EXPERIENCE EVER
Slave at SMS.AC
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- Full-time
- Location:
- San Diego
- Submitted by:
- Anonymous
- Date:
- Mon May 26 2008
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This was the worst experience ever. It taught me that hard work does not pay off, but nodding your head and giving high-fives through a fake smile might. The location is awesome, but not worth someones self-respect for themselves. Luckily I'm a local so after their "2nd round layoffs" I had plently to bounce to, but for the hundred or so they hired from other states and then laid off out of the blue a few months later....awful. Management claims to take cuts themselves, but that is a lie. If your not drinking the cool-aid watch out! The management is a joke. A few of them who deserve success are stuck with a bunch of losers (professionally and personally). Criticism is healthy if it is genuine, but that is not the case at this place. You are criticized downright to what you eat..that is if they don't throw it away (seriously). Sexual harassment, hell yeah! It was beyond ridiculous, but at the time I didn't know how to handle it. I'm sure others got it as well, share your stories!!! I hope Pousti and his kiss-ass sidekick get a reality check