EAB reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(729 total reviews)
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David L. Felsenthal

80% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

EAB has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 729 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EAB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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729 reviews
1.0
Sep 1, 2017

EAB sales and marketing associate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There is free coffee and food.

Cons

Terrible management who could care less as long as they get their bonuses. People lie and step on each other to get their own promotion. Do NOT take this job. Terrible attitude from management and terrible environment.

2.0
Apr 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Entry-level staff given exposure to member-facing roles and can directly serve members at the CXO level - Lots of young, driven talent that's eager to please members and management alike

Cons

- Leadership endorses a toxic culture of harassment, sexual and otherwise. Leaders often can't control their behavior around staff and members alike, especially when alcohol is involved. HR will respond based on your place in the org chart. - Management selectively performs their assigned duties with no accountability when members/staff fall through the cracks. Unless you're hindering your boss' ability to climb the ladder, you can do whatever you please. An outside consulting company came in to diagnose management woes and politely informed leadership that management roles are poorly defined and not consistently enforced. The response was to hard-code "flexible" role definitions for staff (at individual manager discretion) and made the problem worse rather than encouraging accountability. - If you're male, be ready to adapt to the bro culture that's heavy on boozing and harassment. Participate or look the other way. - If you're a woman, you'll face harassment from peers and managers alike, with HR turning a blind eye. Loyalty is rewarded above performance. -Staff are actively encouraged NOT to write self-reviews during evaluation periods because management wants to avoid awkward conversations when expectations and reality collide. - HR will never, ever follow up without constant pushing, no matter how innocuous the request. They're primarily interested in doing favors for leadership-level staff, with expectations of a reward later. Established procedures are often ignored, and don't expect any action to be taken without a court order. - EAB's parent company's stock dropped 50% in two years, and it recently went through rounds of layoffs and office closures before selling a significant stake to a company that invests in failing or bankrupt companies. EAB is about a year or two behind the parent company with regard to EVERYTHING, so expect your job to be temporary. - You will be actively misled regarding your development and promotion opportunities, unless you've been unofficially "fast-tracked." Half of the jobs on the internal job board don't actually exist, and most of the remaining ones were promised to staff months earlier. - If you ever need to use federally-mandated medical leave to care for family, resign or lawyer up. The retaliation you'll endure isn't worth it, though. - Average staff tenure for the entire company is ONE YEAR. Speaks volumes on its own.

3.0
Feb 25, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people who work hard and don't mind helping out. Great starting point if you're new to your role. Good equipment.

Cons

Managers with zero management training. No title consistency. No ongoing skill training or improvement plans. Large salary discrepancies between people with the same title and experience. No bonuses, even after being bought for what amounts to more than a million dollars per employee. Management keep talking about wanting innovation and out-of-the-box thinking, yet crush any effort of doing things differently from how they're done now. A lot of behind-the-scenes politics. Bullpen / Open floorplan. Little career movement. Inconsistent promotions (People with the same skill, experience, and output aren't promoted on the same schedule). A lot of feel-good movements and projects, making people feel like they're being listened to yet amounts to nothing.

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