PSAV Presentation Services Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"This was just a part time job."

"I worked for PS for many years. Bad management. I am glad have been released."

What do you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"I liked the people that I worked with and the job itself"

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

"Run and hide. It's all nice in the beginning, but once you get a sense of how the company is run they don't have YOUR interest at heart."

What don't you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"The corporate structure and culture is myopic and uncompromising. For what the industry is they have no clue. It's not Microsoft."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get a clue how to treat employees and retain them without killing their soul."

"Insightful"

What do you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"The culture. The nature of business is in Entertainment productions."

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

"Prepare to give 100% towards your specialty. Take advantage of ALL training, it will prove to be useful."

What don't you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"Hard corporate structure. Limited growth potential and average compensation package."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Exhaust all options for growth potential, recognize talent and ambitions of internal candidates.Limit the options of external candidacy to all the culture to remain pure and undiluted."

What do you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"Great working with experienced freelancers who had years of experience in their specialties. Free to perform job functions without much interference from upper management. Fortunate to work with another manager who was very respectful and helped foster team synergy."

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

"Growth opportunities are almost always tied to ability to relocate. Unless you're in a major market, odds are you'll need to bounce around a bit. Also understand that as long as you're in the hotel services division, the hotel you service makes the final call on whether or not you work. I heard countless stories of people who were asked to move on at the request of their hotel partner. It doesn't mean you've done anything wrong or that you should lose your job. Turnover is apparently common in hospitality. While working at my hotel, I saw numerous sales, catering, and conference service managers go through the hotel's sales office. I'm told that 2-5 years seems to be the average time PSAV managers spend at a given property. If you plan accordingly and stay networked, it's not difficult to move up the ladder and have a demanding, often stressful, often under-paid career. In all fairness, PSAV is probably one of the most stable AV companies out there. None of the smaller AV companies around here can offer the kind of benefits at PSAV."

What don't you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"On my second day working for the company I gave my manager a crash course in reading profit and loss statements. Mind you, my manager had been with the company for several years, but our Regional Vice President had never taken the time to give instruction on how to interpret the data. That set the tone for my time there. I kept my manager in the loop with what was going on, but acted fairly autonomously. While I feel as though my manager supported my decisions, I was really looking for someone to help me make better decisions. When I would reach out to other managers and people at corporate, they were always very helpful and I appreciated their guidance. The single most annoying aspect of being sales manager is the way the company would alter their sales compensation package. The company saw no irony in emphasizing the importance of sales while finding new and creative was to pay sales people less and less for their work. The company seemed disjointed and almost ad hoc. Corporate was involved enough to where our branch never felt autonomous, but it was distant enough that we often felt disconnected. The most stressful part of this type of work is understanding that you're never really off the clock. I worked during every vacation I took. I worked almost every weekend. I worked on holidays. I worked early in the morning and late at night. If the phone rang I had to answer it and help solve a problem. True story - two hours after my son was born (on a Saturday) my manager called me at the hospital and asked that I take care of a minor situation over the phone. It wasn't even client-related and surely could have waited until I returned to work on Monday. But the boundaries that would have helped my manager differentiate between work time and personal time were non-existent."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Many of the managers I came in contact with started out as hourly technicians. There's a big difference between knowing how to perform the technical functions of the job and knowing how to manage the time and talent of others. Unfortunately, most of the managers I reported to had never received any type of formal management training and were unable to help me grow professionally. During my career, I reported to two managers - neither of whom had any sales experience. They were willing to give me their best guess as to how I should negotiate and interact with clients, and they were empathetic when I went through difficult situations. But their advice never came from experience. Is was sort of management by best guess."

What do you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"Leading a team to a end goal, and having all members being rewarded for their efforts"

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

"Be aggressive, and know what you are talking about. A/V can be a fun jobjust always have a can do attitude."

What don't you like about working at PSAV Presentation Services?

"Life Balance, the hours and days required of you can be strenuous"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To listen to your team and allow them to flourish. Many of them have great ideas."

"I worked for PSAV for 3 months and found it to be a good workplace and networked well with the clientele. The job position didn't work well for me though so I left to find a better fit."

"I have worked for Swank/PSAV since 2011. I have found it to be a strong company that likes to promote from within, which allows for a lot of room for advancement. The company employs nearly 500 here in the Dallas area and is the largest Audio Visual company in the United States. I would recommend the company to friends and family."

"PSAV provides audio-visual services to venues around the world and I find it needs to restructure its practices. Currently it is not conducive of happy employees. A good PSAV tech must possess a strong technical skill set to secure decent hours of work, be strong enough to perform the manual labor of setting up major equipment and give great customer service. You have no set hours and it weighs heavily on your personal life. The pay does not reflect the work of its employees."

"The company is a good company to start off with, but there are many things that need to be improved. They do not pay their technicians well enough to keep them. They lose many talented technicians to freelancing."

"A good stepping stone into the multimedia field. This job however requires little demand from their employees and you aren't pushed to increase your technical skills. In this position you are more used as a manual laborer for setting orders."

"The company is growing and currently is in house at 1200 hotel partners worldwide with 4500 employees. I currently support all 1200 locations for all their live streaming needs and live interactive video conferencing. Multipoint control. I manage sales and support, as well as logistics and maintenance. I assist with incorporating the live broadcast systems with existing AV setups or plans."

"Poor communication from senior management. A lot of confusing reporting and unnecessary paperwork to complete transactions. Benefits are reasonably good and have good rates, 401k could be better with company match. A lot of employee dissatisfaction with recent company mergers with removing salary employes to hourly with no notification. Very bottom line oriented."

"My only word of advice is to do your research."