good at a lot of things - Administrative Assistant Exponent Employee Review

3.0
Feb 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

great benefits, generous vacation (accrual to 40 days), I'm allowed to get my duties done without someone looking over my shoulder all the time. As long as I can get the high-priority jobs done on time, my low-priority jobs can get done in rotation so I'm not stuck doing the same things for hours on end. This wide variety of tasks makes the day fly by.

Cons

Not enough training. Software designed for our company can be awkward to find a way through at times. Trying to get all the employees to use the same design for reports is a challenge when they are unwilling to learn how to use the forms because they are under pressure to produce and bill.

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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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