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Empire State Development

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It's like my boss wanted me to quit - Anonymous employee Empire State Development Employee Review

1.0
Apr 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good location - midtown manhattan, good work-life balance, some very nice people. A lot of potential if they can get rid of the toxic people at the top.

Cons

Poor leadership and non-existing organization. Projects don't get done unless there is a five-alarm fire to get it done. And then, everyone scrambles last minute to put everything together. Seriously low morale and super high turnover. My boss was painfully unorganized, unqualified, juvenile, rude and not collaborative or inspiring in any way imaginable. Even with a new team hired to help, she was so unbelievably difficult to work with, we all ended up leaving. None of the so called 'executives' in my dept. ever made any 'executive' decisions from fear that they would look bad. But instead, would routinely throw you under the bus in important meetings and act like everything was your fault. A classic case of the 'old way' of doing things which is why this place is so bad. A dysfunctional blend of antiquated management style and a sloppy, desperate need to please Albany.

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