Sadly, any negative reviews that get put up about Infinitive get flagged and taken down pretty quickly. Good news is you can learn a great deal about them by reading the positive reviews they decide not to flag. In reality, there could only be such a stark contrast in the good and bad reviews for 2 reasons, which also happen to be the biggest flaws of the company. Either it is
1. Management is so disconnected with the employees that they either think everything is great and the only downsides are growing pains. Not recognizing the far deeper and more serious problems that exist.
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2. Management doesn’t worry about reality, or truly care about getting better. They are solely focused on perception to outsiders. They spend all of their time focused on making Infinitive appear like a great company to the outside world. All the while, the company is rotting from the inside out as they continue to sweep all of the problems under the carpet. Some would say it would be better to spend your time addressing the many problems noted, but instead they decide to just post their own reviews, because looking great is apparently much more important than being great.
This is the way the company operates; they don’t fix problems they just try to polish them to try and drive perception into reality. They are like the IKEA furniture of Consulting, sure it looks nice at first but if you put any pressure on it, or look too close you quickly see its many flaws. Also it may be good for a starter set in college, but when you get serious about life, it is time to upgrade to something that isn’t bargain consulting. Some examples below.
-The “best places to work” selection they will point to as their crown jewel. They will conveniently leave out that the 2 months leading up to the selection, they pressure employees with constant emails, meetings, and reminders to fill out the survey because of how much it means to recruiting.
-The PTO Benefits they speak of are an absolute farce. They say they will give you as much time as you want off, but really they will question every vacation day you take, and bring it up at end of year reviews. This system was set up for them to save money, and that’s it.
-The growing list of “exciting” logos of companies they work for is incredibly outdated and hasn’t seen a new logo in years. They often go through periods of laying large amounts of people off because it turns out when you only have 3 or 4 major clients, you aren’t very diversified. Don’t worry if you ask them about this, they will tell you they have a plan. Just don’t follow up and ask what the plan is, they haven’t gotten that far yet.
-The flat structure they will tell you about where everyone is equal and titles don't matter. They will brag about how great this is and gets rid of all the bureaucracy you see at other companies. This is true if you are on the higher end of the 2 titles they have (Executive). They don't seem to care at all what the executives do, as long as the Principals continue to get them extensions. However, if you are a Principal the flat structure means you are stuck in the same spot forever. There is no actual path to Executive, and because of that the execs will use you as such. If something goes great, the exec will take the praise, if something goes bad, well that is where you come in. Don't worry though, occasionally the exec will give you a shout out in a company meeting.
-The In“fun”iday events they will boast about are not nearly the party you would ever want to attend. It is normally a 2 day event for the CEO to try out his stand up material on an audience that is forced to laugh at his jokes(these jokes often cross many lines, but it’s the CEO so you will awkwardly smile and pretend it is okay). This is followed by a party where management will spend far too much money, and get inappropriately drunk, and brag about blacking out the next day. During the parties the people will often wonder how are we paying for this? That question is answered a few months later as lay offs come, but at least they got to enjoy their party.
In addition, there is 0 HR system. This allows for a wild west type environment. When there is are InPHinitive HR announcements that need to be made this becomes very apparent. Anything a normal HR department would advise against, is often said by them and stood behind. The only benefit of this system is that it brings the employees closer together, because the minute one of these emails is sent, the entire employee work force comes together to redline the email and all of the many problems it presents by an ignorant “HR” rep that is neither human, nor a resource. It does allow for people to bond together and share some laughs at how woefully inadequate Infinitives PHony HR is. Some examples below.
-We were once told that Insurance costs will be going up next year because as a collective workforce we used too much insurance the prior year. This was their way of putting a giant target on anyone who was using the insurance the correct way, and essentially blaming those who got surgery. Quite sure this violates many laws.
-We were once told that the reason Infinitive does not offer paternity leave is because that it only benefits a small number of employees. Driving home their antiquated view of a woman’s role as a sole caregiver in the early months of a child’s life.
If you are one of the lucky ones who got to read this review before it was flagged by them and taken down, I advise you to make your own decision. Please don’t simply take my word for it, because this was once a good place to work. Unfortunately, that is not the case anymore. My advice would be to go in to an interview and ask them about some of these things, and make sure that they have real satisfactory answers. If they do, then you can just write me off as a disgruntled employee, but something tells me the answers will be very generic and allow you to make an even more informed decision.
On the other end, if you are the person flagging these reviews and requesting them to be taken down, please take a second to actually read the content that is written, rather then seeing something negative and immediately sweeping it under the carpet. Take a second to think that maybe this many people saying you were once a good company but not anymore, cant all be wrong. Take a second to actually address some of the many faults that have been called out, rather then hide it to enhance recruiting. Every company has flaws, but when these flaws are ignored, they tend to multiply and become far worse. Maybe if you focus on that, you can start to return to the company we were once proud of. Doubtful, given you are probably flagging this before even getting to this paragraph, but worth a shot.