Makse Group reviews

- Some in management will blatantly ignore you after you text/email them multiple times then try to throw you under the bus when a project goes wrong. - Management always says “work is in the pipelines” but this work more often than not never reaches the newer employees desks. - Management gives awful feedback and will go from “you’re doing a great job!” to “you’re 1 misstep from being fired” in a day. - Management will blatantly lie to your face if it benefits them and no matter what they say to employees, their growth/development is a secondary concern for management. - Almost all of management is solely remote and they almost never visit the office while employees are expected to show up in the office the vast majority of days. - Your mistakes will be judged with impunity and your successes will be recognized seldomly. - A certain person high up in management straight up told us that “You are all replaceable at the end of the day, I won’t lose sleep if you leave for an extra $5,000 somewhere else” - A certain high up person in management once said after an employee was terminated “I want everyone to pay attention to what just happened, because that’s what happens when you f*** with the big dog. - A person high up in management once said “I better not see you being a jerk to people while you’re here, only I have that right”. - Hard work does not equate to success. Even putting in the extra hours won’t guarantee you get promotions if you “aren’t a team player” - “Rewards” in Makse Group are more like golden handcuffs, and have sometimes come attached with documents legally binding you with the company for a certain amount of time by accepting said “rewards”. - Management will often say “we want you to be in front of clients more often” but deny these opportunities and say things like “We don’t want the clients call to be dominated by consultants” - A certain person high in management once said “Please reach out to me for any questions” in a team meeting but when I reached out to them they say “Why are you reaching out to me?” or “Did you talk to someone in the Denver office before asking me?” - Management will sometimes reach out to you right before a deadline needs to be completed and expect you to complete it in that time with minimal context/instruction as to what to do. - Management will say you’re “not an effective communicator” even when you reach out for work to do and they never get back to you about it. - Management makes up new rules on a whim and expects you to adhere to those rules 100% as soon as you hear about them or face consequences.

I believe that the arrogance, anger-management issues and total lack of self-awareness possessed by the CEO has kept the company from growing. Makse Group has fallen well behind its competitors due to its lack of employee culture, extremely high turnover rate (take a look on LinkedIn to see how many people have come and gone over the last two years) and client churn. All of Makse Group's leadership team works remotely while the 25 or so junior-level employees are forced to work out of the office in Denver. When the CEO comes to visit the office, the fake smiles and enthusiasm shown to him are uncomfortable to witness. Despite microphone-enabled security cameras monitoring every corner of the office, there is a constant stream of discontent from the majority of employees that is ever-present when the leadership team is not visiting. The company culture is basically a shared hatred for the CEO and his antics and this kind of energy is draining to be around. Anyone who leaves the company on their own accord is immediately an enemy in the eyes of the CEO and will be talked poorly of, even if they were well-liked and respected when employed there. The CEO has also been known to show visible glee when firing people or speaking about firing people. Timesheets are over-scrutinized and 40 billable hours per week is mandatory. If you can't find enough work, you will either find a way to lie about your hours or get terminated, there is no in-between and there is absolutely 0 accountability from the leadership team regarding the constant lack of work and lack of new clients. It is also worth mentioning that the entire HR function of the company is run by the CEO's wife who has never once been seen in-person or on camera by anyone at the entire company. It was often joked about that she is in fact an AI chatbot. If you are considering joining Makse Group, or any company for that matter, I would advise you to find a handful of both current and former employees on LinkedIn and ask for their opinions. All of the 5-star reviews on Glassdoor are posted by either the CEO or someone on the leadership team that was forced into writing a review.