Palladium Reviews

Little room for growth, low pay. They treat their people poorly, talk behind their backs, and have cheated some staff. have a very poor training program. When you ask for help they treat you like crap. Recently, the company surprised everyone by laying off lots of people without notice (up to 70 staff). Work/life balance is a myth. Very low Morale - Rough patch is an understatement. With the layoff of some; it forced too many to fill in shoes that they weren't ready for. It disrupted work-life balance for many. Leadership is now non-existent; most were in survival fear mode. Lost a lot of the true development professionals in the company.

The messaging (internal and external) is all smoke and mirrors attempting to hide the huge mess inside this company. I was in the Washington DC office for several years and was kept too busy and demoralized to look for another job, plus didn't want to let down my employees and peers by leaving. Like many, I believed in my projects so tried to ignore the poor systems, awful senior managers, and constantly growing pressures of doing more while relying on a few key colleagues in other departments b/c internal politics (or, in some cases, simple lack of training for the constant stream of new names). Kafka-esque office and policies lead to a weird culture of whispering, people working off-site b/c they actually have work to get done and can't in the wide open office, and senior management in suits showing up once in a while to present the latest strategic vision. I still haven't figured out the ownership structure of this set of companies, but the (non-public) shareholders are the higher ups and their main concern is making money for themselves. I'll stop there, but bottom line is that sadly I would not recommend Palladium as a place to work.