Terrible and toxic culture - Director FGS Global Employee Review

1.0
23 Mar 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You'll work on a lot of high profile client accounts.

Cons

Truly horrendous place to work. Long hours around the clock and a demand to respond to emails within minutes (seriously, management will time your response and you'll be penalized). You'll also be penalized if you don't bill enough hours to clients each week. They're also cheap so you can't expense meals or Ubers taken when you work long hours. There's a culture of intimidation from leadership and they allow a lot of toxic managers to run teams. No one has a direct manager so you're told to be "entrepreneurial" and figure it out yourself. Performance reviews are left to people who have little interaction with you, and it's not a 360 review process so they don't care about your feedback to leadership. Mid-level and junior team members gain no visibility because partners take credit for their work. Little opportunity for growth. Very much a boy's club. Women are spoken down to by old sexist white men across all teams. Aside from some token POCs for their DE&I team, it's pretty much an all white firm. They let the men who have been at the firm from the start get away with all kinds of bullying and bad behavior. And they know how to bury it because it's a crisis firm.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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