Most miserable CEO I've ever experienced - Executive Assistant AGC Partners Employee Review

I appreciate your thoughts. AGC is a hard charging Investment Bank where precise execution is required by the bankers and the operations/administrative team. We admit, this environment is not for everyone. Mediocre performance will expose the customer and the AGC team. We are very upfront about the standard of excellence, and frankly, underperformers will struggle, quit or eventually be replaced. Underperformers that last for a few weeks or a few months tend to blame others for taking a job that is beyond their skill set. That said, I take the negative input to heart and will always work to hire better and make the job environment challenging, stimulating and friendly. We nurture our junior employees to help them grow, albeit sometimes with tough love, to build their core skill sets and long term careers. While many have grown to senior roles at AGC, others will inevitably grow in a different direction. As an example, our current head of compliance started with us 14 years ago as the firm’s first administrative assistant and she has grown with us ever since. We are also very proud of our track record of helping to place our departing employees across an impressive list of nonprofits, venture capital funds, private equity firms, operating companies (corporate development and operations) and graduate schools. On the administrative front, we have had over 15 assistants stay over 3 years, eventually leaving to start new beginnings including graduate school, marketing roles and other personal opportunities. When these players leave, it is very difficult to find great replacements that have the skill sets and capabilities to flourish in our environment.