Not a good place to work. terrible leadership - Manager Keystone Employee Review

1.0
Mar 24, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some flexibility but very little. Interesting work

Cons

It’s so clear they now have their new marketing person trying to clean up their online perception, but it’s just as bad as you’re seeing in the reviews. most of the positive reviews are not real as stated in multiple comments. Leadership team is ineffective and they funnel every decision into two people who actually have all the power, making the operations team look like they don’t know what they’re doing, absolutely no business strategy. They’re just hoping spaghetti will stick to walls. they make decisions about promotions behind closed doors and all the performance cycle meetings are just that — a performance to make it look like they value anyone’s opinion. poor managers that don’t know how to manage people, and those who have been at the company 5+ years are getting promoted simply just for being there and not because they perform well. negative culture, there’s a team that had four people voluntarily leave from one team — no one batted an eyelash or looked into the managers behavior to see why that might be. HR team has no clear protocols when you report something, many black professionals have experienced racial discrimination and were either laid off, pushed out, or siloed. basically if you’re a toxic person, you’ll stay — all the good people have left or are plotting their exits

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Keystone Response
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Dear Manager, Thank you for sharing your experience. We are sorry to hear you did not have a positive experience when you worked at Keystone. The firm strives to foster a culture of inclusion. We maintain clear protocols for reporting, and I invite you to reach out to me with any concerns you may have. We also value employee growth and development and aim to support all of our colleagues equally. Our performance review and promotion processes are communicated firmwide. I also want to assure you that we neither post inauthentic reviews to this page, nor make attempts to mask negative feedback - including yours. We value the feedback of our current and former employees as important input to how we can improve the Keystone experience. We are always open to input on how we can do better. Again, thank you for candid feedback. Sincerely, Gabrielle Toledano COO at Keystone Strategy

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