big disappointment - Anonymous employee Exponent Employee Review

2.0
May 25, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

salary and benefits are great, highly intelligent co-workers

Cons

management does not listen to excellent suggestions from junior staff, poor top leadership leads to minimal oversight of projects run by senior management, employees hired at lowest level possible for financial reasons but this leads to employee dissatisfaction and unfairness, upper management favors certain employees over others and this favoritism not based on better technical skill, poor assignment of staff to supervisors, poor assignment of projects to managers

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Diverse work, intelligent and ambitious colleagues, above average compensation package for newly minted PhDs. Giving 2 stars simply because of these perks.

Cons

Extremely poor work/life balance, high pressure on billable hours/utilization, cutthroat/burn-and-churn culture, weak management, poor mentorship opportunities (didn't feel inspired by many leaders), sink-or-swim onboarding (I think this has changed a little since I left), ton of gatekeeping around promotions, and worst of all.... there's very little humanity present in the culture. Almost everyone I knew didn't fundamentally feel as if their office, practice, and/or manager cared about them as a human. Bad managers get promoted so long as they're revenue generating. I would not recommend this company to be a person's first choice.

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