Transforming to bankruptcy - VP ETS Employee Review

1.0
20 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Beautiful campus; hybrid or remote work arrangement

Cons

This organization continues to try to sell the "ETS" name, but this absolutely not the same research based, quality first, mission driven organization it was before, All the top 3 levels of leadership have been replaced with new people and almost 100% of them had no previous education or assessment industry experience, all are cronies of some new leaders, and none of them cares about maintaining the values of this once great institution. All C-suite leaders care about is marketing themselves on LinkedIn and spending ETS monies traveling the world to build their own careers and pad their resumes. CEO and all new leaders talk continuously about AI but they know nothing about how it works, have no real strategy and invest nothing in building skills or capabilities. All caring and knowledgeable employees are being laid off and jobs are being offshored. CEO wants 90% of ETS to be in India, including core research, assessment development, AI and Tech roles, for reasons that are still unclear to everyone. Offshoring ETS is not something he talks about externally. ETS has been good to me for my time here, so I'm not being bitter, just extremely sad to see a once fantastic institution go down the drain like this.

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5.0
11 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It was a good experience.

Cons

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1.0
22 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Support of immediate management and coworkers makes coming to work every day a pleasure.

Cons

Where to start... First, the employee performance evaluation process and methodology has changed from 1) performance vs your job description to 2) OKRs which were completely unattainable and meaningless at every level to 3) rocks and outcomes which again have very little to do with the day to day jobs of most employees. It seems the burden for goals and objectives and performance management has shifted from management to employees as they try to define a methodology that holds only doers responsible for the company's success. All this since Amit Sevak took over. Management manipulated the questions in a recent employee survey to force responses that made it look like there was improvement year over year. Of course, when you add a new President between the employees and the CEO peoples opinion of senior management is improved. Of course when you shift the focus to immediate management from senior management, the responses will be improved. Try issuing the exact same survey as the prior year and see how much "real" improvement there was in the numbers.

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