Serious management issues... - Anonymous employee Archetype Employee Review

2.0
Oct 16, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Lots of opportunity to do work above your experience/job title -Increasingly impressive client roster -Lots of people on the team are very smart and have great work ethic

Cons

-There's a real vacuum of leadership. Management-level staff were either incompetent, extreme micro-managers, or very strong and aggressive personalities. -Career growth for junior employees was stifled. Bringing up raises or promotions was met with shaming and standards were impossibly high for the routine promo cycles. -The setting of unrealistic expectations for clients was rampant. Senior staff would over-promise and it would fall on junior staff to scramble to deliver. When goals weren't met, junior staff was expected to fix the issues created by an overzealous management team -Favoritism is wide-spread. It was commonly accepted that those who had a positive personal relationship with the CEO went far, while others who did similar (if not better) work saw little upward mobility

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5.0
Feb 3, 2026
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Pros

Very strong company culture, supportive and positive. Very helpful in fostering each employers own growth.

Cons

The kind culture sometimes gets in the company’s way. They could be more ambitious.

1.0
Mar 11, 2026
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Pros

good people to work and great environment

Cons

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