Project Performance Corp. Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Project Performance Corp. full-time

Pros – New corporate ownership and CEO that are committed to developing synergy among the different operational divisions. Re-emergence, albeit slow, of corporate cultural attitudes that are essential to the success of modern consulting organizations.

Cons – Still too top heavy in over-compensated VPs and Directors, particularly ones that are carry overs from the former ownership management fiasco, and who are not adding value or strategic vision to the business or willing to break down organizational barriers. Still losing key technical staff who had good organizational (internal) and client (external) institutional knowledge and rapport.

Advice to Senior Management – Stay on the path you have set, but consider more nipping and tucking at the top end so more focus on growing accounts and fostering cross-organizational collaboration can occur and result in business growth, staff retention and a "One PPC" reality.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Project Performance Corp. full-time

Pros – I loved PPC when I first joined, but not what it has become.

Cons – After the purchase by AEA, PPCs core values and its "niceness" went by the wayside. After the acquisition, many good people and dear friends were laid off or left in disgust. AEA's financial troubles caused it to sell off the pieces. In preparation for PPC's sale, there was a another bloodbath of layoffs, including sales, IT, and senior management.

Advice to Senior Management – It's too late. The new management will be rearranging the deck furniture on the Titanic.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Project Performance Corp. full-time for less than a year

Pros – 25 cent items in the snack machines. Headquarters in McLean is in a nice facility. Can't think of anything else nice to say.

Cons – Management engages in secrecy and downright trickery...I never knew what was going on. Working for a consulting firm, I was surprised how little human interaction I got during the day. PPC isn't winning any new work, and I'm not surprised, considering the way I was treated. Benefits package is almost worthless.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Project Performance Corp. full-time for more than a year

Pros – 25 cent snacks/drinks in snack machines

Cons – Company lost it's soul and is on a free fall after it was acquired by AEA.

Advice to Senior Management – Raise salaries, stay in touch with employees, win new contracts so that existing employees can keep their jobs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Project Performance Corp.

Pros – I loved the building and the people in it. Company events were fun when I went to them, and the work environment was generally relaxed. On my first day, I wore a tie and got several comments about how it wasn't necessary, even from the CEO at the time.

Cons – I felt like I had a lack of solid feedback about my job performance on a regular basis. The review process also seemed to not follow a regular schedule.

Advice to Senior Management – I do not have much feedback for the management of Project Performance Corp. A little more transparency would have been nice.

Former Employee – worked at Project Performance Corp.

Pros – Pre-acquisition: Great work/life balance, employees were greatest asset, game room, positive attitude of peers, high importance and involvement with community service, enthusiastic and highly competent leadership.
Post-acquisition: None that I can think of.

Cons – Pre-acquisition: Imbalanced pay grades, no bonuses, room for growth was limited.
Post-acquisition: Incompetent senior management, work/life balance was way off, low employee morale, negative overall atmosphere, very poor communications from top down, emphasis on numbers instead of people.

Advice to Senior Management – PLEASE go back to making your employees your greatest asset! Without them, the company is going to continue to go into a dangerous downward spiral. Turning PEOPLE and SERVICES into "differentiators" has not worked well with any other corporation, what makes you think it'll work here? LISTEN TO YOUR EMPLOYEES AND REWARD THEM FOR THE HARD WORK THEY PUT IN!!!!

Current Employee – been working at Project Performance Corp.

Pros – -Staff level employees that care about their peers and clients
-Some flexibility

Cons – -Lack of communication/explanation to staff level employees
-Lack of empathy or encouragement toward the staff
-Loss of benefits such as personal leave and 401k matching, without explanation
-Blatant disregard for the truth, senior management is 100% political now, and will say anything to put a positive spin on anything negative
-Financially unstable
-Lack of respect to employees

Advice to Senior Management – PPC has faced many issues in the past several months. The 100% turnover in the C-suite has really dug a hole for PPC's future success. The changes implemented will only hurt the company in terms of staff-level. Although it is a public company on the UK market, money cannot be the only driver for success. The senior management needs to recognize they will continue to lose revenue if they continue to neglect the staff.

PPC is not winning any new work. Senior management's approach to "differentiators" will only hurt in the long run, as they cannot change PPC's way of doing business quick enough to save the company.

The CEO could care less about the employees. The two all-hands he has lead since he joined PPC in November were a joke. The first all hands he could not care less about the staff level employees, saying that they wouldn't be affected by any changes (wrong) and said he could care less about the environmental side of the company (which happens to be the most stable area in the company). The second all hands was a hand holding session about feelings, to a group of well-educated adults (seriously, do you know who you're audience is?). If senior management plans to hold onto any more employees that help make the company successful, then they need to change their attitude, otherwise they will lose more than the high number of people that already left the company since the new CEO started.

If senior management doesn't start caring about the employees and the image the company is portraying to its employees and clients, then they should lay off the rest of the company and see how successful they will be without the talented staff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Project Performance Corp.

Pros – Energetic and fun place (or was)
Great people
Respected industry leader

Cons – New PPC CEO has no clue how to run a company. Has been drummed out of many major companies. New plan is to leave what has built the company to pursue building a piece of software.
New CTO knows nothing about technology
New VP of HR wont answer simple questions and treats employees like dirt

Advice to Senior Management – Adive for AEA...either sell PPC or get this new management out of the way. At the current pace the new CEO will destroy the cash cow in a quarter or less.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Project Performance Corp.

Pros – The company is located in a very convenient area (Tyson's Corner). Traffic is horrific there, but at least there's a metro being built nearby.

Cons – - The amount of turnover within the last several months speaks for itself.

- Favoritism runs deep in this workplace.

- No professional training opportunities for "certain" employees, despite the fact that this is advertised as an employee benefit during orientation.

- If you're not liked by certain people, PPC has no money in any budget for you. Lack of training opportunities aside, if you need any basic office supplies that require more than $30, you'll have to obtain "approval". Really??

- Very low salaries compared to other companies in the area.

- The benefits package is practically useless. Better get supplemental coverage when considering working for this company.

- If you have to travel a significant distance to the client site, don't expect to be reimbursed for any cost associated with that travel. There's no money in the budget for that, but it's totally acceptable there to have the employee absorb that cost.

- You can expect a promotion only if the right people "like" you. For example, a particular manager, who was an extremely poor communicator and, at times, dishonest and arrogant, was kicked off of a project by the client, and yet he was miraculously promoted months later.

- There are no minorities in upper management, which speaks volumes about who this company values and who it does not value.

- If you're assigned to a billable project, you are treated like a human being with some level of respect.

- If you need to travel for business purposes, you're paying for it with your personal funds. You will be laughed at if you ask for a corporate card.

- Often engages in creative tactics to win work; makes promises to clients that they are not fully prepared to fulfill, thus putting massive, unnecessary pressure on its employees.

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Yes, minorities are competent and can work well in upper management too.
2. Get a new set of senior managers - across the board - who will treat people fairly.
3. Disrespectful behavior should not be tolerated from any level of an organization.
4. Stop offering the cheapest benefits package to employees.
5. Either make professional training available to everyone, or no one. Offering professional training to a "select" few is simply unfair and causes employees to lose respect for managers who do this.
6. End the favoritism.
7. Offer salaries that are comparable to other comapnies in the area.
8. Give promotions based on performance, not the "good old boy" system.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Project Performance Corp.

Pros – - Lots of fun company activities to participate in (sports teams, volunteer opportunities)
- Managers to a good job listening to their employees and trying to keep them satisfied and challenged
- Young energetic staff
- Great game room
- Decent pay
- I feel pretty good about my job security

Cons – - As with most small / midsize companies policies / procedures will be broken in order to satisfy a customer (this may mean occasionally working long hours to reach an unreasonable timeline)
- Yearly performance reviews have some awkward metrics that may not apply to your specific job role.
- We do a lot of tech projects, but some of the project managers have no experience managing tech projects. (Need a developer at any requirements meetings)

Advice to Senior Management – - Create a training program for new project managers instead of promoting them from analyst and assuming they know what they are doing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend