Good place to work if you're in the right place - Director ETS Employee Review

4.0
Nov 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Social mission. Involvement in national and international discussion on Education. The products and intellectual capital developed by ETS can be found all over the world, and the research we produce influences decisions made about education by governments at the local, national and international level.

Cons

Increased work, decreased staff. Work is increasing to consume 24 hours of the day. Harder to have a good work/life balance. Management is understanding of the need to have a balance, but the work always tends to intrude.

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5.0
Apr 11, 2025
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Pros

It was a good experience.

Cons

Nothing of note that was negative.

1.0
May 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Support of immediate management and coworkers makes coming to work every day a pleasure.

Cons

Where to start... First, the employee performance evaluation process and methodology has changed from 1) performance vs your job description to 2) OKRs which were completely unattainable and meaningless at every level to 3) rocks and outcomes which again have very little to do with the day to day jobs of most employees. It seems the burden for goals and objectives and performance management has shifted from management to employees as they try to define a methodology that holds only doers responsible for the company's success. All this since Amit Sevak took over. Management manipulated the questions in a recent employee survey to force responses that made it look like there was improvement year over year. Of course, when you add a new President between the employees and the CEO peoples opinion of senior management is improved. Of course when you shift the focus to immediate management from senior management, the responses will be improved. Try issuing the exact same survey as the prior year and see how much "real" improvement there was in the numbers.

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