Good company with some outdated views - Business Analyst Grant Street Group Employee Review

Our President and Co-CEO, Myles Harrington, asked me to pass along the following response to your review: We appreciate your complimentary remarks. With respect to your suggestion that starting salaries are not competitive, we do four things to make certain that they are: 1) We subscribe to and reference national compensation surveys to determine appropriate salary ranges for every position; 2) We consider what we are paying our employees with similar credentials; 3) We ask candidates to state explicitly their salary requirements and we try to satisfy them when they are within range of Nos. 1 and 2; and, 4) We encourage employees to tell us when they believe they are inadequately compensated (which they do) and we ask them for supporting evidence, which we use in reevaluating their compensation. With respect to your observation that we lack racial diversity, the same has been said of nearly every tech company in America. However, I believe we have one of the more promising recruiting campaigns in the industry. We have enlisted every one of our nearly 300 employees in the effort to recruit minority candidates and we pay them a generous bonus when they succeed. Our experience suggests that employee referrals are the most effective way to recruit a more racially diverse workforce. Finally, you take issue with our effort to keep politics out of the workplace. Anyone who has worked at Grant Street for a few weeks comes to realize how deeply committed we are to respecting individual freedom and the immeasurable value of each person. This, by extension, encompasses questions of social justice. They don’t need reassurance in the form of company announcements decrying social injustice. They don’t want us to follow the example of prominent business leaders who issue press releases signaling their disgust at what is obviously disgusting. They want us to confine our remarks to what pertains to the business. And most of all they want to be treated fairly, consistent with our mission statement: "Foster an unparalleled experience of freedom and fairness at work as a vital part of a team of extraordinarily talented professionals who are passionately committed to doing outstanding work in the service of their colleagues and the client."