Culture degraded by CEO - Anonymous employee FactSet Employee Review

3.0
Apr 16, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

General absence of jerks, managers support their reports, good place to start your career

Cons

CEO has created a culture where senior management is playing Game of Thrones--he doesn't like to hear contradictory opinions and surrounds himself with "yes people". Loyalists, in turn, push short-term, attention-grabbing projects of little lasting value and are promoted. This value placed on short-term change creates an incentive to restructure constantly, which is disruptive to the front-line employees who actually do the work. This has degraded the company's previous strength in work-life balance. At the same time, leadership is unwilling to get rid of highly paid free loaders who don't contribute to company needs.

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Cons

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