Overworked, under appreciated, lead by fools - Consultant Stratigent Employee Review

1.0
29 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The pros were that the culture was composed of motivated and smart people. The company was on the cutting edge of analytics implementations, so we were gaining a lot of exposure up until about three years ago. I used to be a huge cheerleader for this shop, but the culture became very toxic over the past 3 years.

Cons

The company is dying quickly. Roughly 40% of the senior team members have left for better opportunities in the past quarter, and resource utilization is approximately 50% in a good week; you won't hit your billable target. Leadership has spent the last three years pitching the strategy of pivoting to advanced analytics and business intelligence, but they have failed to execute and continue to be typecast as good technical resources for running your tag management tool. Nepotism is rampant among leadership with family members still employed after substantial screw ups. Other members of leadership are there because they grew up with the former CEO but are entirely unqualified to lead; prefer self over team. This has also lead the culture to shift from being team oriented to being focused on self-preservation. Everyone is quick to blame someone else or hide behind a loophole in the project management process; a big game of hot potato.

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5.0
14 Apr 2016
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Pros

Company that iterates quickly based on internal feedback and client needs.

Cons

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1.0
8 Mar 2016
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Pros

Work/life balance - only after you get to know how to hit the 34 hours a week target. Paid phone plan. It was awesome till the company moved to Chicago.

Cons

The leadership only consists of the CEO's minions. His minions can talk and say anything they want in company meetings, throw abuses at each other, but if somebody who isnt in his circle does it, booom.. you are fired!!! Team building events are once a year and they mainly focus on the CEO self gloating and saying how HE has sold the company to a bigger company!!! kudos to that. When you want to put in your papers then either get out without notice or make sure you leave saying how much you love stratigent but have to leave because of ____(fill blanks with some personal problem) if you give negative feedback to their face, then be sure to be fired. They moved to Chicago citing location is great fro business. But the move to Chicago was only to make the travel easier for the CEO and his minions. There was no travel allowance for employees coming from the suburbs and the salary remained the same. Employees have to pay for the training they need to get the job done. They want to get into mobile analytics, but are not ready to invest in their own resources.

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