Constant changes don't make for a stable work environment - Project Manager ETS Employee Review

3.0
7 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay is pretty good if you're lucky to only do a 40-hour work week but that rarely happens. The people you work with are what makes this company a good place. They're dedicated and fun to work with, even during high pressure times. Direct managers have been very good, at least in my case, and look for growth and new project opportunities.

Cons

Ever changing upper management company direction, leaving employees floundering. Generally working with skeleton crew, necessitating longer working hours. Constant rounds of layoffs, even to those employees who were valued and receiving excellent performance reviews, so no one can get comfortable. Lots of outsourcing.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
22 May 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Support of immediate management and coworkers makes coming to work every day a pleasure.

Cons

Where to start... First, the employee performance evaluation process and methodology has changed from 1) performance vs your job description to 2) OKRs which were completely unattainable and meaningless at every level to 3) rocks and outcomes which again have very little to do with the day to day jobs of most employees. It seems the burden for goals and objectives and performance management has shifted from management to employees as they try to define a methodology that holds only doers responsible for the company's success. All this since Amit Sevak took over. Management manipulated the questions in a recent employee survey to force responses that made it look like there was improvement year over year. Of course, when you add a new President between the employees and the CEO peoples opinion of senior management is improved. Of course when you shift the focus to immediate management from senior management, the responses will be improved. Try issuing the exact same survey as the prior year and see how much "real" improvement there was in the numbers.

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