Middle management focused on bottom line. You can feel like a commodity. - Anonymous employee ICF Employee Review

3.0
Nov 20, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you're young and starting out your career, this is a great place to work. Lots of opportunities to learn and grow, plus office space is lovely, nice holiday parties and good compensation.

Cons

You can start to feel like a commodity. Overemphasis on billability and the bottom line. For the most part, upper middle management is poorly trained, and people are very stressed out.

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Cons

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Cons

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