Not much stability - Anonymous employee AchieveForum Employee Review

2.0
Jun 19, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay, good benefits, a lot of very kind, welcoming employees. Good amount of parties and social gatherings, overall the atmosphere is positive and upbeat.

Cons

While there are many people at AchieveForum who are absolutely great to work with, there are some higher ups who ironically have no idea how to manage employees and if you bring up any kind of issues to them they just throw out robotic corporate jargon without actually acknowledging a possible solution. For a company that specializes in leadership training, their leaders need A LOT of work. Not to mention they are constantly laying people off and doing whatever they can to stay afloat. This is NOT a sustainable company and it's crawling with soulless corporate robots. If you want to be managed by normal humans who actually care about you I'd suggest going elsewhere.

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1.0
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