Corrupt New Leadership - Marketing ETS Employee Review

1.0
7 Dec 2024
Recommend
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Pros

ETS was once a wonderful place to work with an inspirational goal of making educational assessments accessible to all. The people who work there are bright, knowledgeable and friendly.

Cons

New leadership, including the entire C-suite as well as some GMs and VPs have corrupted the mission in favor of their own personal gain, using their positions to elevate their careers and public images, especially the CEO. The massive egos are rampant and out of control. This led to them mismanaging finances and valuable partnerships for which they took zero accountability. Instead they laid off more than half of the company and are mismanaging what's left by hiring their own cronies to take whatever piece of the pie is left until there's nothing. It's very sad and the Board, who has allowed this to happen and given the CEO free reign to run amok with his ego at the helm, should be ashamed of themselves.

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Cons

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1.0
22 May 2026
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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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