Propeller Reviews

First off, let me mention that one of the onboarding tasks is to leave a review on Glassdoor so take these with a grain of salt since many are new employees. Where to start on the cons… here’s a short list: - Majority of the work is staff augmentation - Growth at any rate is the name of the game right now. Management is willing to sell any work no matter how horrible the client or the work is - People managers are often account directors who are incentivized to sell work usually at the client you’re working at, so if you’re unhappy with a project or client it is painstakingly difficult to leave - Pay and salary increases are much lower than our competitors and industry standard. They sell you with a great culture, which in my experience, has not been delivered - The “flat” structure that is advertised is not true. When you’re on a team based project, there are hierarchies put in place and you may be managing or managed by one of your apparent peers

- drinking and socializing is the most straightforward way to get promoted - lack of work/life balance: work weeks are expected to be 43 hours on average. not counting additional internal work you are doing - and everyone does some internal work. - lack of objective promotion criteria. we all think we are judged on the same competency matrix but not all performance managers adhere to that structure or make it explicit outside of annual review time. - the pay is terrible when you compare it to our competitors. you can work harder for more bonus $$ but your salary will barely increase annually. - clients not diverse enough, feels like we are just staff augmentation for a few big clients - no HR department or escalation for internal issues or questions - LT not professional - talking about other consultants publicly