Forrester reviews

Forrester has relied heavily on its "great culture" to make up for the lack of competitive pay for years. This has been true until recently. Sherri Kottmann's exit and the addition of Chris Finn has created a significant shift in the employee experience that focuses more on maximizing our stock price and less on treating employees like they matter. This has reduced the level of transparency from executives, created an us vs them mentality from leadership, and makes it apparent that employee experience is no longer a priority. Pay is always an issue, one resolutely ignored by leadership. For the second time, amid layoffs, promotions and raises have been put on hold - negatively impacting the careers of Forresterites and effectively giving us a paycut. Recently, the CEO has reneged on his promise of Work From Anywhere Forever and gave two weeks notice that a return to office 2 days a week was expected. This felt like a major blow to our culture and eroded any remaining trust I had in our executive team.

Considering they are doing a THIRD round of layoffs in less than 12 months today I'm going to assume there's not too many people getting hired in the short term to read this. Also, if the volumes of negative reviews, abhorrent CEO approval scores, and tanking stock price aren't going to deter you from still taking a job at this place I have nothing for you - best of luck. Instead, my message is to my former colleagues that are still somehow grinding it out at Forrester. What are we doing here people? I worked with a bunch of very talented people - people who deserve so much better than awful pay, quotas that are built based on ludicrous projections instead of grounded in any sort of reality, a product that no one wants nor asked for at a premium price led by possibly the worst and most universally disliked employee in the company, toxic culture - I could go on an on. So why are you sitting here hate reading these reviews? I promise the grass is greener on the other side. Are there problems at any company? Sure! But this is a place with problems at literally every turn. I know a lot of you have been there a long time - 5+ years maybe even more. You're institutionalized at this point and scared of the outside world. Trust me, the first step out of the door is the hardest and then it will be the best thing you ever did. You're wagon is currently attached to a horse with no legs. It ain't getting better in the short term. Why are you allowing yourself to be continually punished by the utter incompetence of this 'leadership team'. Half the people in senior management roles were simply promoted due to someone else being fired or quitting of their own volition - they didn't come from this level of experience. Do they have the skills to run a company, or where they just 'there'? Listen, you're going to do what you're going to do, but I regret sticking around for an extra year and making bad money because I was too lazy to dust off my resume and go through the motions of finding a new job. Don't repeat my mistakes. You're better than this place, and your former colleagues on the outside are here to help if you just ask.