Stein IAS Reviews

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.

There’s no structure or shared purpose. Just backstabbing and people scrambling to protect themselves in an environment where leadership models selfishness and insecurity daily. It’s a deeply creepy, bizarre, and hysterical place to work. This company is dishonest about its culture, DEI, growth, and opportunity. Advancement has nothing to do with competence or ethics and everything to do with compliance, optics, and who’s willing to perform loyalty the hardest. Salaries don’t come close to matching the hours people are expected to over-commit, and the entire place operates like a shallow popularity contest. Current leadership (2026) are genuinely some of the most out-of-touch people I’ve ever encountered in a professional setting. They confuse busyness with value, visibility with intelligence, and authority with merit. Communication often felt dismissive, indirect, and unnecessarily political. Watching them posture as “leaders” and "mentors" while actively contributing to the dysfunction would be funny if it weren’t so damaging. Nepotism is baked into everything and the culture is aggressively fake: forced smiles, performative cheerfulness. Beneath it, it’s painfully obvious that everyone dislikes each other. Trust doesn’t exist, and leadership does nothing to hide their favorites. I wish I could name names, but honestly, just spend five minutes on LinkedIn and you’ll connect the dots. The talent drain is impossible to ignore. So many genuinely smart, capable people being fired/keep leaving is an undeniable pattern. What remains are those who’ve either accepted shockingly low standards, especially under leadership that punishes competence if it threatens their egos. The culture is exhausting by design. Everyone is tense, irritable, and burned out because the work itself is hollow. It’s all manufactured urgency and meaningless pressure, usually handed down by managers who don’t actually understand the work they’re overseeing. Exploitation here is not accidental. Leadership knows exactly who needs the paycheck to survive NYC, and they squeeze accordingly - long hours, unrealistic expectations, and zero empathy. Plenty are overworked, underpaid, and stuck performing enthusiasm for leaders who couldn’t care less - smiling, nodding, staying agreeable, while being completely disposable the second it’s convenient. This company is obsessed with appearances. Leadership is constantly broadcasting “growth” and “success” across LinkedIn and every other platform they can find, as if saying it enough times will make it true. The disconnect between the online persona and internal reality is embarrassing. Come for the Job, Stay Because Rent Is Due.