Great company and culture. - Operations Strategy Risks Employee Review

Super team of hard-working researchers, managers and leaders who care deeply about the company's mission and values and love to geek out using professional-level Chinese language and research/data analysis skills. Flexible virtual & hybrid work environment, good health and retirement benefits, too, especially for a start-up. In-person meetings each year.

Zero cons for staff with the grit, stamina, team spirit, and resilience to sustain the normal ebbs and flows of classic start-up milestones. This company is no exception, and the staff who stay seem to have the right stuff to level-up as the firm grows.

Research team demonstrates genuine analytical talent and work ethic. Operations team maintains professionalism and competence despite management dysfunction. Individual contributors consistently try to deliver quality work within a broken system.

The previous reviews warning about "vindictive leadership," "horrible mismanagement," and "sketchy business planning" proved prophetic. Strategy Risks has escalated from poor management to systematic legal violations with consistently late paycheck payments throughout my tenure, demonstrating chronic inability to handle basic payroll functions where late payments became routine rather than exceptional. Previous reviewers mentioned "fly by the seat of your pants" operations and "fickle inexperienced leadership," which manifested across fundamental business processes. Leadership consistently oversells company capabilities while lacking fundamental understanding of the professional standards expected in this industry. Most troubling were expectations to misrepresent company capabilities to clients, including potential government customers - when data products weren't functional, leadership asked business development to present them as operational, raising serious ethical concerns about client representations in government and national security markets. Earlier reviews cited "sketchy business plan and return on investment," and my experience confirmed systematic financial dysfunction with chronic struggles to pay employees on time and consistently poor investor communications, creating serious questions about financial stability and ability to deliver on client commitments.