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Controller at Prometheus Global Media
in New York City, NY

What do you like about working at Prometheus Global Media?

"The experience I gained in taking this company from a start up was invaluable."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They Should be local and have a high amount of energy."

What don't you like about working at Prometheus Global Media?

"The distance from my house made the commute time difficult."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should stay focused and understand the difficulties with a new company."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Controller at Looper Reed & McGraw
in Houston, TX

What do you like about working at Looper Reed & McGraw?

"I was allowed to handle multiple tasks without supervision. I made a difference in how the accounting department was ran."

What don't you like about working at Looper Reed & McGraw?

"I didn't have any real complaints while working at Looper, Reed & McGraw. I got along with everyone extremenly well."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Controller at Church Brothers
in San Juan Bautista, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Hands on opportunity to create meaningful financial information"

What do you like about working at Church Brothers?

"Relative automonomy in the creation of financial systems and reporting data"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make certain the controlling partner is signs off on your offer of employment letter."

What don't you like about working at Church Brothers?

"The owners lacked the expertise to run a profitable company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Evaluate every dollar spent and its return. The same with system changes."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Controller at Geek Choice
in Boston, MA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"The owner doesnt want to put money into advertising, and business is slowing"

What do you like about working at Geek Choice?

"There is always something new to do here. Lots of problems to solve, and I am an excellent problem solver. Also the environment I have build here is very pleasing, everyone gets along"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be patient, a lot is asked of you working at Geek Choice. Be organized, and ready for anything."

What don't you like about working at Geek Choice?

"Lack of financial backing. This company could grow exponentially if the owner put some cash into it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Advertise more, you have to spend money to make money."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Controller at El Toro Gourmet Meats
in Santa Ana, CA

What do you like about working at El Toro Gourmet Meats?

"Family owned, Great owner, Learned hispanic culture, Highly respected by owner"

What don't you like about working at El Toro Gourmet Meats?

"Internal Dispute in family, most of work was manualy in company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I always suggested future planning, build company stabilitiy and growth for company"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Controller at Servatron
in Long Beach, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Most rewarding grew from regional to national and three divisions"

What do you like about working at Servatron?

"Progressive with the best of technology. Allowed to build a strong team and interface effectively with marketing, sales, and operations. Real time on line accounting system implemented and directed my myself."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company and all three divisions were sold to VSA Inc. The operations were folded into their corporate structure."

What don't you like about working at Servatron?

"CEO was a visionary. At times cautionary advice financially to grow more steadily and less strain on financial resources were not followed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To grow the company aggressively, yet take the forecasts seriously."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Controller at Orchard Corner Coffee
in Mission Viejo, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"growing a viable and stable business gave great satisfaction"

What do you like about working at Orchard Corner Coffee?

"Sharing in the ownership, growing all aspects, the responsibility and team building,"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company was purchased by Von Houtte of Canada. Since purchased by Green Mountain and now owned by Aramark. Industry in consolidation mode."

What don't you like about working at Orchard Corner Coffee?

"The capital to grow the company sometimes was restricted by available credit. 2008 resulted in a reduction of working capital by the bank. (lines of credit) and interest rate increases. Loss of customers due to closing led to sale."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management which included me evaluated the business model and as the business was still profitable outside investors may have been another effort to pursue."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Controller at Stoltzfus Feed & Supply
in Gap, PA

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"For the most part, the people are great to work with. However, the bonus plan, compensation, and benefits are lacking."

What don't you like about working at Stoltzfus Feed & Supply?

"The President and his wife micro-managed the business. With a few exceptions, the management team that they hired were not given the autonomy to make decisions. The President approves nearly every purchase, invoice, and expenditure."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would place greater trust in my management team. Just about every decision had to be run by the President, which created inefficiencies."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Controller at Tuesday Morning
in Dallas, TX

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Not wonderful"

What do you like about working at Tuesday Morning?

"Plenty of untapped potential for the company. Need more focus on broader number of customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Focus on being cheap. The company is cheaper than Wal Mart with bonuses and pay."

What don't you like about working at Tuesday Morning?

"Too much favoritism. CEO is a premadonna who is so full of herself."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop focusing on the baby boom generation as your only customer. They are dying off."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Controller at ARAMARK
in Union, NJ

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"I have grown and learned a lot in a short amount of time there."

What do you like about working at ARAMARK?

"I like the people I work with and the team relationship the management team has in order to work together and be successful."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Some tips would be to be yourself and make sure you are able to work in a fast paced, deadline oriented environment."

What don't you like about working at ARAMARK?

"There is nothing I can say I dislike about the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My suggestions would be to always communicate so everyone is on the same page and we support one another."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Controller at Woodward Brothers
in Prineville, OR

What do you like about working at Woodward Brothers?

"I enjoyed the work that I did and I was able to implement some good controls"

What don't you like about working at Woodward Brothers?

"Management would say one thing but do another and everything was secrative"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give your employees some respect and don't say one thing but then do another"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 1 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Controller at Meridian Contracting
in Tucson, AZ

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Meridian is very hard on employees, especially in the home office."

What do you like about working at Meridian Contracting?

"People that I worked with - projects that I worked on, things that we accomplished."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"stay away from Meridian Contracting Inc."

What don't you like about working at Meridian Contracting?

"Learning why previous employee had knicked named one owner Little Hitler"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be honest & stop fixing blame instead of problems - It costs a lot of money to constantly be replacing people & it will be very hard to keep them as the economy improves."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Controller at FTR International
in Irvine, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"I provide quarterly financial statements to the bank and bonding company"

What do you like about working at FTR International?

"Relationship with my boss and a very clean and appealing work environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Please be aware that it is very hard to get a raise."

What don't you like about working at FTR International?

"I don't like the compensation or the vacation package given."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Compensate the employees more towards the market level and give more vacation time."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Controller at Sully-Miller
in Brea, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"I have learned a great deal about the road construction industry."

What do you like about working at Sully-Miller?

"Very nice people who have worked a long time for the company, and care a great deal for the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just don't oversell yourself and make sure you prepare yourself for the interview by researching it."

What don't you like about working at Sully-Miller?

"It seems that management is going in too many different directions trying to compensate for the significant drop in core revenue due to the economic downturn."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I don't get the impression that management has done all of the necessary due diligence before making decisions about entering into new business ventures."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Controller at Polly's Pies
in Anaheim, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Family owned business"

What do you like about working at Polly's Pies?

"The people were very dedicated to the company and stayed with the company for many years."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Polly's makes most of its revenue during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season."

What don't you like about working at Polly's Pies?

"There were some mixed messages coming from the leadership which makes growing difficult."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be open to change and don't sit on your laurels but keep trying to improve."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
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