FINE Reviews

Many staff were expected to work much more than 40 hours per week and given unrealistic deadlines, none of which matches up with the "be human" tagline that ruled when I started there. It was impossible to get meaningful and consistent investment from the partners in professional development, work culture, or any kind of equity/diversity/environmentally conscious initiatives. Lip service at best. Promises of career advancement were often withheld or ignored. Partners could be fickle and arbitrary and play favorites, which led to significant turnover. Toxic behavior by favorites was allowed to fester. Multiple talented people were hired to do jobs that they were destined to fail at because the partners were not invested in their work.

Toxic work culture, even more toxic leadership. No sense of personal boundaries. Your time is overly micro-managed and they expect longer than 40 hour work-weeks, and often times will try and get your weekends, too. Nepotism. So much nepotism. Constant moving goal posts for promotions and will sometimes be used as a bargaining chip to get you to erode more of what's left your personal boundaries. Favoritism. Really weird and consistent use of cultural appropriation. Leadership is insular and cliquey, and often responds to employees with with punitive and retaliatory action for personal–not professional–reasons. Unrealistic timelines and expectations set by leadership, which means you're destined to fail and will receive all the blame for it.