Embarrassingly bad company to work for - Online TOEFL Rater ETS Employee Review

1.0
27 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work from home. Flexible scheduling. That's it.

Cons

This company takes full advantage of their part time employees and offers nothing in return. They pay ridiculously low for the professionals expecting to provide comprehensive and accurate scoring and never, and I mean, never give raises of any kind. They treat the part time work force very poorly. The only communication is to share new rules or plans to make compensation decrease. There is no appreciation for employees at all. I would not recommend working for this company. I feel bad for the FT staff who must be miserable if they are treated in a similar way. I have worked PT and FT for many companies and have never seen such poor treatment of employees.

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5.0
5 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

ETS have a group of outstanding researchers

Cons

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1.0
22 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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