Atheneum Partners Reviews

The managers at this company always blame someone else for failures. Major politicking and intrigue. Managers make employees work very hard and often after hours, while come in late, kick back and do nothing. They threaten their employees with discharge and demotion. Rather than coach people to grow professionally, they abuse and humiliate in public meetings. Nothing but negative emotions towards internal "leaders" Managers are bad, but also unjustifiably arrogant because of previous consultancy work. A fancy suit or a Vera Wang dress does not a competent manager make. The majority of managers have terrible relationships with everyone at work. No big surprise, when passive aggressive abuse is the norm. Management doesn't actually care about what they do, what their employees do, or the industries that they are a part of. They can't inspire the people who work for them. Their employees are MISERABLE. Management is excessively familiar with their employees. No concept of personal boundaries, volunteering info about or criticizing about fights with spouses, problems with kids.... Employees are often uncomfortable and confused. Complete inability to communicate project plans, expectations, personal evaluations. Huge amounts of confusion as a result. Expect to be blamed or criticized no matter HOW you perform a task. They lie: They like to their employees, to their managers, to their customers, clients, and investors. Unpaid wages, unpaid experts, expectations are not accurately set or deliberately misrepresented. Manager promises are like buying cheap mirrors. Expect them to be broken. They micromanage too much. Especially given that most of the staff are over-educated and under-paid for the jobs they are doing? Managers should be acting in a way that their workers admire and want to work hard for. Micromanagement as a substitute for lack of personal example, work ethic, honesty, or respect. They are rude. Managers swear a lot, yell at people, and punish publicly for every small mistake. They call names, and argue over unimportant things all the time. All they do is embarrass, humiliate, and scare their workers.

The work environment is generally really bad, in part due to the fact that people are not treated as professionals or appreciated at all, but on the contrary they are constantly being reminded of how disposable they are. The Ops evaluation system is solely based on the numeric results of the moment, without considering any qualitative aspects, and usually disregarding things like if someone solved a particularly difficult project or the results of previous months. Vacation requests are often rejected because the system is really strict. Because of the high turnover, HR is so busy hiring that they are usually not involved with personnel issues. The work and payment are very different in reality than what is advertised on the website or discussed during the interview process. Management is very poorly trained, defensive and not open to the team asking questions or offering constructive criticism; they are very inclined to "fear" their way into obtaining results. The work per se is repetitive and call-center like, and in my time there it was commonly expected to lie, even if I expressed my discomfort with it. The good reviews they have on Glassdoor are obviously written by the company.