Athena (PA) Reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)

68% positive business outlook

Athena (PA) has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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30 reviews
1.0
1 Dec 2019

Work here if you want to get fired

Recommend
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Pros

There were some good colleagues to work with here. Compensation is alright.

Cons

Terrible environment. They fired a large portion of the workforce over the course of a year. (If I had to guess, around at least a quarter of the total employees, but I'm not sure the exact number). Reasons were mostly trivial rather than actually related to performance. Current employees experience anxiety of potentially being on the chopping block, and low morale from their coworkers dropping like flies. Any tiny amount of dissent/opinion that does not align with leadership's is not allowed and could likely lead to termination. Senior leadership, especially at the very top, will openly disrespect employees and rudely call them out in front of their peers for insignificant reasons or small mistakes. There are also so many irresponsible business practices - excessive hiring and firing, endless rotation of employees through projects, feast or famine dynamic in the workload...etc Why work here as opposed to somewhere else? I can't think of a single reason. You will treated poorly and always in danger of being fired (unless you're in the "inner circle.") There is practically no name recognition so it's not actually impressive on a resume. Learning and development is not a thing. The type of work you do there is fluff and many times at the mercy of the most difficult/unreasonable clients who purposely choose to contract with boutique firms to push around since the big ones aren't going to take their crap. Leaving the company was the best thing I could ever do to save my soul.

1.0
5 Jan 2022

Toxic Work Environment

Recommend
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Pros

Exposure to business contacts maybe - if you ever get that far - most won't.

Cons

Looking to grow with a company of whiter on white Karens? Athena is your place to dream big!! Never been at an organization that preached so much good about itself while doing so much harm to everyone in it and around them. Run by a Mean Girls school yard gang. Horrible to new timers, gossiping and smack talk to hateful extremes, constant lies about staff and clients, undermine managers and junior employees, micro-manage, under-cut, dismiss, de-value members of their own staff, ridicule and humiliation almost daily happenings, intentionally in front of other employees, just strait up unhappy and horrible people. Seriously not good and very very unhealthy. Keep going - this ain't it.

1.0
8 Nov 2021
Recommend
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Pros

There are some good people stuck working there, all on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder.

Cons

The company is very cliquey with an extremely phoney culture. The owner, Maggy Wilkinson, is a shallow, insecure, fake, narcissistic person. All she cares about is appearances. She admitted to me that she hires people based on whether they present well. It's ironic because she's nothing to look at. She's basically Don Draper in a dress. Upper management is molded in her image. They gossip constantly. They're dishonest. I was let go with absolutely no warning. There was no constructive criticism. They said we were all "family" but I was thrown out like I was last week's garbage.

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