Old Company Struggling to Adapt to the New Economy - Anonymous employee ICF Employee Review

1.0
Feb 25, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule. Intelligent people. Many good opportunities available to individuals that can negotiate the office politics. Focused mainly on the public sector or industries that used to be government owned.

Cons

Many intelligent people but all management lacks leadership skills, strategic thinking, and office politics management expertise. Most work is for government and the company operates like the bureaucracy that it serves. Pay is not competitive in any markets they operate in and junior staff are overworked. A dinosaur struggling to operate in the modern economy, more focused on marketing themselves on what they are not, than focusing on becoming competitive in their markets. No ambition to be the best in their field. Happy to be second, third or fourth, or operate in markets where there is no competition and no growth prospects.

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