IEM reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(227 total reviews)
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Bryan Koon

79% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

IEM has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 227 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IEM employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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227 reviews
2.0
Jan 19, 2024

Shirt term at best

Recommend
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Pros

Remote work options are available

Cons

You will be used and abused. You will be worked and overworked. Those who work the hardest are given more and more responsibilities without adequate pay raises. They lull you into thinking you are doing great and the company is so glad to have you. Beware though. There are several random reductions in force. If you are the unlucky one, you are called by HR and let go on the spot. They aren’t even courteous enough to give you a week or two notice.

5.0
Jan 3, 2024

Great Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

IEM is a consulting firm that hires talented people into the roles requested of them by their clients (state, fed, and tribal gov; gov agencies; private companies; etc). IEM is your employer and they utilize you to work on a project or projects for a client or clients so it is very performance based. This means that you may be hired for a specific project that runs only 1-2 years (depends on the project, could be 3-5yrs) but if you work hard and pick up skills you can move to other positions as other projects for other clients get picked up. This is not a corporate job but a position which you could end up keeping for a couple of years or for a lifetime depending on your current experience (to get hired), skills (to stay hired), and dedication (to move from role to role). There are employees here who have worked for IEM for 1 year on up to 20 years and beyond; it all depends on your skillset and the projects IEM wins. The better team there is, the more projects get won, the more work for everybody!

Cons

If you are not flexible in your possible work hours or location then this MAY not be the right company. Some positions offer remote only and no travel but, if that project ends and there are no other remote roles you qualify for then you either would need to be okay taking something else and possibly traveling or no longer working (if that is even an option based on your skillset). It really depends on what is needed by the different clients that IEM works for. You are an IEM employee but they work for these clients and do what these clients need them to do in order to respond to disasters and community development because IEM is a consulting firm that strategizes and executes for its clients.

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