Absentee Founder, Bloated Management - Senior Manager Embark Employee Review

3.0
Dec 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Fully paid benefits - Excellent coworkers in consulting - Great pay when staffed

Cons

I have worked at embark for 4-6 years and this was the best place to work for most of my time. As we’ve grown, it is apparent that embark’s management is not up to the task of growing up and becoming a real company. The founder is effectively checked out and only chimes in when it comes to culture stuff, but still decides things as he’s the owner of the company (fully or at least significantly in terms of equity he holds). We have MULTIPLE layers of useless back office and management roles that don’t do anything other than share videos of them with their kids or travel from office to office for meetings that could have been emails. Our bloated back office is nothing compared to the sales people we have hired and fired in the past six months though. Both have cost us enough money that, despite good core business results, we are tightening the belt on budgets for next year. My client has been trying to hire me for the past three months and I’m close to accepting. The embark that we all loved to work at and felt would carry us smartly into the next decade seems to be dead.

Explore other reviews about Embark

5.0
May 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very good work/life integration compared to other consulting firms, interesting projects, a team that I feel really supported by, great growth opportunities

Cons

Management sometimes doesn’t seem responsive to feedback

1.0
May 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great group or core people who still remain at the firm. Competitive pay and amazing benefits.

Cons

Everything that was good about Embark (mainly the core group of Embarkers from the beginning) have left the firm. The C-Suite doesn’t know the business or its people. Our new CEO is in way over his head. He has no knowledge of the professional services industry. He relies heavily on the people around him to make up for his shortcomings and relies heavily on his ability to memorize a script. Scary times.

1
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All