Sense of being undervalued, repetitive work.
How to start - Exiger is a place where you can learn and meet some good colleagues. However, there is enough to make working here negative that should be noted.
There is a complete disincentive to do well. Once you establish yourself as a capable researcher, they will promote you, remove your overtime pay, and start pseudo-pressuring you into new responsibilities without allotting time for them. The work distribution model is arbitrary and jumbled, and only 1-2 individuals control the distribution. Very little time is allotted on said model for managerial roles, extra operational responsibilities, or sporadic work that comes regularly with the job. It is rare for an employee to go more than a day without hearing someone gripe about how much work they have, how tired they are, or about something that sales or upper management pulled recently. This is the main avenue for camaraderie at the lower levels of the company - people bond in their difficulties and highly anticipate the next company happy hour that they can get smashed at to try to forget their daily misery.
While there are major disincentives to doing well, there is an atmosphere of people scrambling to get ahead - people create arbitrary new colorful charts, features, and 'standards' that eventually add more time onto the actual research so that they can get promoted.
There is also a clear air of nepotism and favoritism in the company. A few good ol’ boys or people who fit the look get picked up by senior management - namely pedigree white men. At the same time they have half-baked inclusion workshops like “promoting women in the workplace” while there are very few women in senior positions.
The disincentive to do well also ties to a disconnect between the New York and Silver Spring office. NYC is largely sales, so they have no reason to deny work from clients, while they themselves do none of the research; thus employees in SS are expected to crunch out NYC’s sales that often have arbitrary and unreasonable deadlines. When clients come back with ridiculous questions or expectations, they get dumped on us in Silver Spring. The sales employee goes home with a pretty paycheck and we are stuck crunching out reports for them with no overtime, minimal bonuses, and no stock options. This has also led to us contracting a lot of the bigger, meatier research projects out to unreliable contractors, while our actual employees are stuck doing repetitive, soul crushing reports on boring hedge funds - the office is ripe with smart people stuck doing monkey work which makes this a real sweatshop type of situation.
