big disappointment - Anonymous employee Exponent Employee Review

2.0
25 May 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

salary and benefits are great, highly intelligent co-workers

Cons

management does not listen to excellent suggestions from junior staff, poor top leadership leads to minimal oversight of projects run by senior management, employees hired at lowest level possible for financial reasons but this leads to employee dissatisfaction and unfairness, upper management favors certain employees over others and this favoritism not based on better technical skill, poor assignment of staff to supervisors, poor assignment of projects to managers

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Good benefits and great culture

Cons

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Pros

Many consultants successfully use Exponent as a stepping stone to larger tech companies. The project work can sometimes be very interesting and some consultants appreciate overtime and bonuses for long hours (albeit many feel they would earn more overall compensation at larger tech companies).

Cons

The company has very high expectations of its consultants and doesn't always provide the resources necessary to achieve their expectations. In order to grow after the first few years, consultants are generally expected to generate their own business, but some junior consultants feel they are not fairly given credit for business they help bring in. Many consultants feel the performance rewards are too delayed.

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