High employee turnover, dirty politics and poor work life balance - Anonymous employee ICF Employee Review

1.0
12 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent 401k match. Travel exposure within and outside North America. Nothing else comes to mind.

Cons

Poor work life balance, managers expect you to work long hours and over weekends. They humiliate you publicly, threaten you and make you feel depressed. I have not seen a workplace that treats their employees so badly. Probbaly which is why the employee turnover is high in almost all the departments and at all levels, from leadership to the analyst level. Our group's leadership has been a musical chair, the person changed almost every year. As a consequence group's strategy keeps changing, no solid and sound direction. Poor health and welfare benefits. Health insurance premium, portion that comes out of employee's paycheck, is quite high and keeps rising every year. No sick days, only PTO. Place stinks of dirty politics. Bad culture of throwing colleagues under the bus. No career coaching and no focus on individual's career development.

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