Poor management and full of themselves - Consultant ICF Employee Review

1.0
2 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible with remote work and work life balance

Cons

Horrible management from the staff managers to LOB and Division leads. They overhire and under assigned work, are too hands off, they play favorites, they don’t give you the specific resources and guidance for the work you’re given, and they expect you to “find your own work” without any assistance. Executives make multi-million dollar salaries, shareholders are prioritized over staff, and after a year of quarterly profits over $25m each, they had to resort to lay offs after 1 month of the new administration because they can’t sustain their workforce while sending management around the country for self serving conferences and awards (that don’t materially mean anything and they just repeat the same vague industry liners) Most of their local, state, and national work products are just copy and pasted with jurisdiction names and data filled in. They say they are people first, yet are getting rid of their DEI policies and support so they don’t upset the government. As a company founded by a Tuskegee Airman, they should be ashamed of their self serving hypocrisy and how they just fall in line to government demands so they don’t risk losing a dollar. Zero integrity. They just like to hear themselves talk Most positions are expected to have an 80-90% billable workload, so the company is only wanting to pay its workers out of company funds for 4-8 hours/week. Should NOT be in the business of preaching sustainability when they can’t sustain their own workers.

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Pros

People, Mission, Culture, Technology, Remote. You work on projects and technologies that actually impact and improves the day to day lives of people around you, the community and the Country

Cons

Pay, No much room for upward mobility. If you are a high performer, you'll struggle as the structure rewards years spent in the company vs level of expertise or experience.

5.0
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Pros

Awesome training and good benefits.

Cons

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