Racism and toxicity - Anonymous employee Stein IAS Employee Review

1.0
16 June 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fake rah rah culture that only supports straight-out-of-college young white girls, but also exploits them by making them work literal 15-20 hour workdays. That’s the only way to be successful here.

Cons

Such clear and blatant biases in how non-white folks are treated, or anyone who chooses to use their experience and expertise to improve the work culture. It’s worse than I ever expected, every single non-white employee knows and sees the fake culture clearly. Absolutely no work life balance, it’s extremely toxic with a fake and creepy smile slapped on.

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Pros

people, people, people. Especially SF office

Cons

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11 Feb 2026
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Pros

Benefits are standard, but no meaningful positives.

Cons

Top-heavy, unstable, chaotic, and chronically unstructured. Easily the worst place I've ever worked. If you're eager to work at a company where burnout is the baseline, support is nonexistent, and you can be dropped in seconds without warning, this is the perfect place. Employee confidence, morale, and comradery sit at rock bottom. Priorities shift daily, expectations constantly move out of reach, and resources never follow. The reward for having zero work-life balance is simply.. more work. Guidance from leadership is practically zero while pressure is constant. Processes are non-existent or change day-to-day. There's no onboarding, constructive communication, and there's even less feedback. The odds are set against you from day one. People are left to fend for themselves, then blamed or gossiped about or judged when inevitable gaps appear and they "failed" to read the minds of management. Everyone operates in survival mode, bracing for the next fire drill and working long hours. Turnover is also relentless and sky high, an ever-churning revolving door. People disappear or are laid off with little to no explanation, hired and gone within 3-6 months, only for the same roles to be reposted and publicly advertised as "exciting growth and momentum" alongside some random, vague agency awards they somehow keep winning. And this burdens already squeezed teams. It's clear there is a lack of planning across operations and leadership because this is an outright insane pattern that does nothing but harm your internal structure and culture.

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