Good people, slow pace, outdated mindset stuck in the 50's. - Vice President ETS Employee Review

2.0
Aug 22, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

If you desire work life balance, friendly, laid back people, being risk adverse, and excel at being passive aggressive, and are fine with working in a company run by prima donna R&D types, this is the place for you.

Cons

The core products and methodologies have not changed since introduced over 75 years ago. While modern tech has been used to automate how things are done, the core products (GRE, TOEFF, Praxis, TOEIC, and The College Board SAT and AP) have not changed in well over 50 years. They continue to lose market share, have zero ability to innovate due to a fixed mindset tightly controlled by outdated R&D organization and each day grow closer to total irrelevancy. It's only a matter of time before they die.

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5.0
Mar 5, 2025
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Pros

ETS have a group of outstanding researchers

Cons

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1.0
May 22, 2026
Recommend
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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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