Challenging technically, but poor management cripples the teams - Anonymous employee Productive Edge Employee Review

- Executive leadership is extremely heavy handed. They tend to nit-pick everything happening on a project and chastise, in public, folks that they hear something that they perceive as negative about. - There is a consistent expectation to work at all hours of the day. Because the partners are so active in the day-to-day projects of their employees, it's very common to receive emails directly from them during the middle of the night/early morning with an expectation of quick turn-around. This results in a lot of folks leaving because they are totally burned out. The talent that they acquire seldom stays because the work/life balance is so bad. Even higher-than-average pay does not make up for this. - Benefits are terrible both in terms of quality of coverage, cost, and management. Many folks did not receive their proof of coverage after the prior open enrollment period until weeks after the new year started due to poor HR planning. This is a failure that goes all the way up to the two partners IMO. - The office on Illinois was a vast improvement from the space on Hubbard, but, even with the persistent involvement from the partners in the design, many things were awful including the plumbing. There was no ventilation in the downstairs restroom which resulting in near asphyxiation when someone ate Thai food for lunch. The same restroom ended up leaking toilet water into the Thai restaurant's kitchen one day. On top of that, a toilet overflowed onto an employee while they were seated! Gross. You will also notice that within a couple days of an unfavorable review here, there is a 5-star review. I'd suspect that someone internally is trying to improve the image.