PMI Worldwide Reviews

1. Founder owned and ran. This is a very tightly controlled company from one person. This extends to every aspect of the company, and he has total say on everything, from who is hired for any position, to having to personally approve any raise, to title changes. There is a Cult of Rob that means you question him at your own risk and his Senior Management team in many cases (and a few other reviews have noted this) are super loyal, long term employees who are totally unqualified for their role. Company objectives and processes, even your very role, can flip on a dime and your goals can change mid year. There really is no coherent long term planning or structure, as it is left up to the whim of the founder. This company desperately needs a COO. 2. Pay. This is the second big issue with the company. PMI has once per year salary reviews. Salary increases must be fought for tooth and nail. If company objectives are not met, don't expect them to offer you even a COL adjustment. In addition, title promotions are even more difficult to achieve. PMI will offer you less than market value to start and sell the benefits, and then keep you there. In addition, more and more support positions have been eliminated and outsourced to an overseas office for additional cost savings. 3. Turnover. The above two issues create the third, and turnover is increasing. Low salaries, moving targets, and a massive workload mean the most talented producers in the company tend to move on the quickest. As a result, the remaining employees are habitually overworked and burn out is a real problem.

Dysfunction is seen everywhere in the office. People are afraid to speak up in fear of retaliation from the executives at the company. You are not allowed to talk about potential issues with your job or you will become the issue and you will not last long. We are constantly told how lucky we are to work for such a great company. The CEO makes all day to day and long term decisions. It is not a company that you will find autonomy in. Although mistakes are encouraged, the wrath of what happens after a mistake is tough. You learn very quickly that mistakes are not allowed......or at least you need to fix it before anyone finds out. People are so afraid of making mistakes, people will blame others or deflect issues on others to protect themselves. This is where the dysfunction is the greatest. People spend more time pointing fingers at each other than they do actually working or solving problems. Hours are long and there isn't any work life balance.....at all! Rules/decisions seem to come and go with no reason or explanation. For example, there was a hiring freeze last year. Two people were hired during this hiring freeze without job requisitions or postings or jobs that even existed. Rumor had it they are FOR. (Friends of Rob-CEO). However, our team is constantly overworked and our turnover is high, but we are not allowed to hire even when we are extremely short handed. There is a constant feeling of failure. I was amazed at how negative company meetings are and how the message seems to be like we are always on the brink of having a really bad year. Then all of a sudden the company has grown significantly, (the company has never grown less than 11% in my 4 years). Budgeting time comes and the crisis of the company on the brink starts all over again. The company is small enough that there isn't any career growth unless you are a FOR. FOR's seem to be promoted without experience or skills.