The owner/founder of PRI (Ajay Patel) is a nightmare. He doesn't know how to run a company, and is obsessed with micromanaging. He is trying to make it mandatory for salaried employees to clock their hours, come to the office 4 days a week, and even wants to integrate computer cameras to see how long remote employees are at their desk. He has countless internal meetings that last 2-3 hours and requires all his staff to attend, just so he can share "ideas" that he exports from GPT. He copies and pastes paragraphs, multiple times a day, all hours of the night, to different WhatsApp groups that he requires his employees to participate in. If people dont give him a "like" or acknowledgement to some ramblings he sends, he starts getting angry and calling everyone, telling them it's "mandatory" to participate in his incessant posting. None of the things he shares or messages are even ideas of his own. He is unable to carry out a conversation without the aid of a GPT.
When Ajay is challenged he starts yelling and screaming.... Even in front of clients.... it's the most toxic work environment I've ever witnessed. He is absolutely clueless on what a professional services IT consulting firm does. He has hired experts and outside help who have come from major consulting firms, VCs, and other backgrounds and he talks down to them as if he knows all. There is no getting through to Ajay, and what's worse is he has absolutely no self awareness. There isn't a single person who I've talked with at PRI who respects him. Every decision he makes is detrimental to the company -- he makes hiring decisions on a whim, he constantly restructures the company on a monthly basis, and he invests money into various sunk costs that don't grow revenue for the organization (such as hiring multiple resources with no projects to bill, "sales" people who have never sold IT consulting, and keeping multiple members of his family on payroll, in India, who don't even work here).
Ajay is running the company so far into the ground that we contracted a fractional CFO to look at everything, give him advice on how to grow the company, and refrain from knee-jerk decision making..... guess what? Ajay didn't take a single word of advice and fired the guy.
Whether a potential client for PRI, or a potential employee, stay FAR away. Due to Ajay's lack of leadership he will never get us out of being a staff aug firm. No matter how much GPT he uses to pretend that PRI is an AI company, PRI is not an AI company. PRI can't even keep project turnover under 30% on the only non-staff aug / deliverables-based project that we have.
Run.
P.S. - all the positive reviews on here were incentivized with gift cards.