Rudderless Ship - Managing Director Tandym Group Employee Review

Where do I begin - Most importantly, what you must take into consideration... Tandym is FULLY controlled by Private Equity (bought from another PE firm a few years ago) - They call the shots! They try to give the appearance that Tandym leadership is in charge, but they are not. PE firm is aggressive and lacks any understanding of the staffing business. Constant changes in process, technology, people, rules the land here... Consistent hiring and firing of leadership at all levels is rampant, causing chaos and disorder daily. Hiring of outside leadership candidates instead of looking internally at tenured, productive, underutilized, dedicated people has caused many senior level, highly productive people to leave... sometimes entire teams in fact. It's not a concern though - salaries, and GP goes back in the corporate coffers... makes that balance sheet looks good. Decision making is purely about the finances to make sure they are ready for the next transaction - the " bottom line " is all that matters in preparation for any future transaction. Recent news of large-scale layoff due to poor company performance was poorly planned / executed. Companywide " work from home " email sent out day before with no explanation causing the entire firm to freak out and lose focus. Just a massive disruption. Might as well just said "we are canning a lot of you tomorrow, and don't want anyone in the offices making a scene." Consistent / steady producing, tenured employees let go while bottom performers were kept. The " inner circle " protects its own at Tandym. Investment in people is not even a thought here. COL increases, promotions, growth are pretty much nonexistent. Backoffice is a full-on mess - Uncollected invoices from clients going back years in some cases Consultants not paid, not paid on time, or not at all. Wrong taxes taken from paychecks, internal payroll consistently inaccurate, Multiple CFO's, Controllers in roughly 3 years. You have to check your commissions with a fine-tooth comb, or you will lose money. This is all because leadership didn't have the vision or understanding to scale with the post pandemic growth. You will have weekly payroll issues, yours or you consultants. To be clear, Back-office staff are overall good hardworking folks that are just understaffed, overworked, underappreciated and aren't given the tools required to be effective. Outside of some special old school, tenured employees, Tandym is not what it used to be like in the Execu|Search days... those days of caring about / investing in people, culture ... are long gone. KPIs' , and $$ signs are all that matters. If you are an experienced staffing person, you might make it here, if you dont have higher aspirations. If you are early in your staffing career, and expect any sort of real training, I would think hard about joining. You are expendable, and the odds are slim to none that you will be successful.