Caring Management, Life-long Friends - Vice President, Strategy Management F2 Intelligence Group Employee Review

The first pro is definitely F2’s breakthrough approaches to gaining access to what people are really thinking. F2 doesn’t take “I-don’t-know” for an answer. I personally witnessed an interview where a procurement clerk had no idea how fast her industry was growing. F2 management was understandably furious. F2 management forced the analyst to call her back the next day to “re-stage” her. (Re-staging is not as bad as it sounds, in fact, I’m told it can be quite pleasurable for the interviewee). In the end, the procurement clerk offered a perfectly accurate industry growth forecast that could be use to make a multi-million dollar investment decision. F2’s “enhanced” intelligence gathering techniques allowed the analyst to tap into an old lady’s clairvoyant economic insight that she didn’t even know she had. None of the top consultancy firms in the WORLD can deliver these kinds of results. The second pro to working at F2 is how well F2 cares for and treats it’s employees. F2 management is tough but, incredibly, also has an elite amount of empathy. F2 knows exactly how hard to push people to get the absolute most out of them but stops just short of creating lifelong resentment. Every employee in F2’s 20 year history has loved their time at F2, except one. This ONE, extremely embittered, hateful employee has mercilessly bombarded F2 with countless FAKE reviews. This psychotic cyber-bully is upset because after 2 years he still can’t find a job. So he has chosen to use the elite writing skills acquired at F2 to viciously defame and slander the good people at F2. Both analysts still working at F2 love it and couldn’t be happier!

This isn’t really a con but if you’re a whiney cry baby maybe it will be a con for you. F2’s 6 month training program is the toughest training program on the planet. This includes programs like Britain’s Mi-6 counter-terrorism training; Spetsnaz, the Russian Special Purpose Force; and Traditions, Walt Disney World’s elite mascot training. Only the strong survive F2’s basic training. But if you make it through, you’ll learn ‘street-smarts’ and be able to figure out things other people can’t. You’ll learn more during these 6 months than you would in a full-time MBA program. ‘Street-smarts’ trumps formal education every time, especially in the realms of private equity and management consulting. You may be wondering why it takes 6 months to train someone on how to conduct customer satisfaction surveys. Well, the truth is, F2 reporting is nothing like anything you have ever seen. F2 works with the smartest CEOs and private-equity firms in the world. F2 has invested over $1 million in developing the most cutting-edge customer survey approach the world has ever seen. While it is unclear where these funds came from or how the funds were spent, no one questions the fact that the funds no longer exist.

No bounced checks that I know of of during my tenure.

F2 is tone deaf. F2 lacks crucial situational awareness, because F2 lacks empathy. F2 lacks the ability to put themselves into other people’s shoes. F2 lacks the ability to understand how their communications come across to other people; like a tone deaf musician hacking away during a symphony. As an entrepreneur, business leader, salesman, or simply as a human being navigating in a complex and confusing world, having this kind of blindspot is dangerous and an absolute DISASTER! F2 is often blindsided and confused by developments that most people could see coming from a mile away. F2 uses “social engineering” tactics on new employees and interviewees that are clumsy, obvious and utterly embarrassing. F2 gets less than optimal performance from analysts because the company doesn’t have anyone within its ranks capable of communicating to human beings. F2 can’t win new customers because of it’s failure to understand how ridiculous its value proposition message appears to the outside world. Complete novices to the "intelligence" techniques feel put-off, manipulated and disgusted by F2’s approach to gathering information. I can only imagine what a true professional would think of F2’s tactics. F2 is a company living a lie, playing to its own music; tone deaf, but playing loudly.