Research Role - Anonymous employee Edelman Employee Review

2.0
Sep 13, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people are great - smart, capable, and really feel like family. The work is interesting most of the time If you're a self-starter, you can really go a long way in the organization

Cons

Low pay for the amount of work expected, very little appreciation for anyone who has non-family related obligations or wants to have a life. The senior leadership are fully disconnected in what it actually takes to live up to the "excellent deliverables" and are focused on the wrong things. Junior talent is under appreciated and sometimes working much below their abilities because there's a lack of staffing Outside hires don't get on boarded properly and then expected to know everything Lack of real culture and values

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