The grass is not greener here. You should consider that other opportunity instead. - Technical Advisor ICF Employee Review

2.0
Sep 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good and there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in areas of interest … buuuut

Cons

ICF is obsessed with billable hours and improving “utilization”, eliminating the human element of being an employee. You are very much expected to be a money making machine with little to no overhead. Also, ICF’s business model HEAVILY relies on copying and pasting old work, and when there isn’t anything to copy (which happens a lot) hours aren’t adjusted, so you end up working a lot of unpaid overtime to make up the difference and prevent charging to overhead. Therefore, a healthy work life balance is non existent. As a technical advisor, I highly advise that you don’t work here.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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