Two rounds of bloodletting in 6 months...Working here is not a good long term strategy - Anonymous employee Precision AQ Employee Review

This ship is sinking and doesn't deserve to be saved. so many things wrong here...and have been for a long while...seems to be finally catching up with them. They LOVE (double entendre there) to tout transparency but won't tell anyone still working there who was kicked to the curb. Of those laid off how many upper management are still their draining the coffers? It's an inverted pyramid, top heavy with bloated do nothing "leaders". They are really good at getting clients (well they were i guess) but TERRIBLE at retaining them. Most don't stay more than two years once they realize how precision is not even a goal, getting the jobs across the finish line without spending three times the budget is. The clients they get by promising things they don't understand because the right people are not in the room. With the demands of clients being increasingly technical, the pitch team yeses the client to death and the the rest are left to try to answer the expectations with little help from the "hiring" people when additional resources are needed. That's a whole other story, how the internal people looking to place new people have no idea what they are looking for and send incompatible candidates that sometimes get hired (if you an get them to respond to a request, if they're in the office, etc). By the time someone is hired we're even more behind schedule. Also, if you work with the person to be hired you likely won't be a part of the process and be left to deal with another warm body filing a role rather than someone who can do the job well. that's the precision way! oops i mean WECENTRIC way! they literally would draw up a project budget and break it down by person hours to see how many people they would need to burn a budget. They charge a "blended" rate of $165 or so for all work, so you get the personalized CEO attention and the blithering millennial PM for the same rate. Deals abound! No onboarding, No training. It's a word of mouth "drinking from a firehose" type of thing. don't volunteer for anything...if you are not in the christened inner circle you'll never be. Watch those titles and "promotions" pass you by. everyone is "senior" or "director" too, So they must know what they are doing. Project management management is abhorrent. they literally hire a project manger right out of college and just thrown them into client meetings. They foster an adversarial relationship with the rest of the company who is doing he work, Making everything more challenging and stressful than it needs to be. PM is the worst. There are some GREAT PMs whose true talent is stymied by the people they report to. That's the sad thing here, lots of really talented, motivated and creative people have moved on from this place due to the lack of cultivating talent and looking from within to lift people up and promote. Also they were laid off. Instead lets bring in another new senior director person who hires their cronies and has no concept of the business. So many have tried to beat sense into the powers that be but in the end you concede and just take the paycheck, convinced nothing will change here and looking for a new job is less fun. In the end you stop contributing as much as you can because it's not rewarded in any way, and some of the ones who are rewarded have really just been obstacles in getting good work done well. i'm sure all those EVP, VP, DIrectors, Seniors this and that, etc will knock their skulls together and change the way they have been doing things to get here and PRECSIONeffect will fly again! Seriously, it was embarassing having "precision" in the name. Also, 'member the time they tried to be a best place to work in Massachusetts or Boston or whatever? that was funny. "Hey effectors!!!! Please fill out this anonymous survey!" Hmmmm...it seems people did it honestly because, well, the accolade was never received.