ZS taught me a valuable life lesson. - Administrative Assistant ZS Associates Employee Review

3.0
Jun 18, 2014
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Pros

The people are amazingly smart and super nice. The office atmosphere is very warm and pretty much has an open door policy. The staff is very diverse which is refreshing.

Cons

Management is very phony. Most of the things that come out of their mouth should not be believed. Associates work super long hours and administrative staff should be very careful because if a Principal has an issue with you then you should start to look for another job. Management gives very little direction on what they need and HR is not there to protect employees (they do whatever senior management says) even when they disagree or know it's wrong. The review process is horrible as your picture is displayed on a projector screen with all the Principals/Managers in a conf room and then they discuss you saying what they like/dislike about you. I've never seen this done anywhere before as the person to review you should only be the person you report to/work for.

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Cons

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