Avoid this place unless you like to be abused - Associate, Events Marketing Milken Institute Employee Review

1.0
Jun 14, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They offer health insurance. That's it.

Cons

Where to start? Milken Institute is currently restructuring and has brought in some of the most horrible people imaginable. My boss has a boss who spends most of their time gossiping and talking poorly about everyone at the Institute. If they don't like you, they will make up false reports and lies about you. Basically they will harass you until you quite or get let go. There is no communication either within teams or between teams. The entire organization is a mess. Everyone hates it there which is why people are quitting on a weekly basis. Most people spend their days job hunting because they're so desperate to get out of there. The people there are mostly fake nice and barely tolerable. Even worse now with the new management team. Unless you're desperate for a paycheck, avoid this place like the plague. You'll seriously want to kill yourself if you work here longer than a month.

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