If you're not in the right crowd - Director ETS Employee Review

2.0
14 Jul 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits and salary are good considering Not-for-Profit status You get to contribute to educational advancement -- if you're in the right place and not stifled

Cons

If you're not connected to someone or their friend, you'll go nowhere, get marginalized and end up looking for work. (Some of the people work for each other on the weekends. In one case, we had best friends and maids of honor for each other in a direct report situation Some people do no work. Some people come in before 10, leave before 4 I had a boss who went shopping with her assistant every Friday from 11-2 at the mall and actually came back carrying the full Target and Kohls bags. That same boss used to hold up a sign in conference calls that said, "How do I get fired and get a package?" No focus on execution. Ask about the English test and what they paid. Leaders are clueless. Innovation is impossible. Every idea is found to have a problem and not pursued. Incompetent managers. One poor fellow was heading an adult learning project, but couldn't speak the English language. It's best days, unfortunately, are behind it.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
22 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Support of immediate management and coworkers makes coming to work every day a pleasure.

Cons

Where to start... First, the employee performance evaluation process and methodology has changed from 1) performance vs your job description to 2) OKRs which were completely unattainable and meaningless at every level to 3) rocks and outcomes which again have very little to do with the day to day jobs of most employees. It seems the burden for goals and objectives and performance management has shifted from management to employees as they try to define a methodology that holds only doers responsible for the company's success. All this since Amit Sevak took over. Management manipulated the questions in a recent employee survey to force responses that made it look like there was improvement year over year. Of course, when you add a new President between the employees and the CEO peoples opinion of senior management is improved. Of course when you shift the focus to immediate management from senior management, the responses will be improved. Try issuing the exact same survey as the prior year and see how much "real" improvement there was in the numbers.

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