Ringing in the new year with the "Love It or Leave It" logical fallacy (aka Accept or Quit) - Rater ETS Employee Review

1.0
Jan 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Former appropriate hourly pay; flexibility of month-by-month scheduling; working from home.

Cons

Lately I've been wondering when/if GRE Raters would receive a pay raise (it's been years). Lo and behold, ETS rang in the New Year with an email letting raters know that the hourly wage would decrease by nearly a third, and gave raters seven days to accept the change...or resign. Having worked for ETS for nearly 8 years in multiple capacities, I find this abrupt and belittling pay cut beyond outrageous. In addition to the plummet in pay, throughout the past year (2017) I often would receive just one shift a month, even during typically busy scoring seasons. Assured it had nothing to do with my performance, I suspected a glut of new hires, and now, with this sudden severe pay cut, I'm left to assume my suspicions were true.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 22, 2026
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Pros

Support of immediate management and coworkers makes coming to work every day a pleasure.

Cons

Where to start... First, the employee performance evaluation process and methodology has changed from 1) performance vs your job description to 2) OKRs which were completely unattainable and meaningless at every level to 3) rocks and outcomes which again have very little to do with the day to day jobs of most employees. It seems the burden for goals and objectives and performance management has shifted from management to employees as they try to define a methodology that holds only doers responsible for the company's success. All this since Amit Sevak took over. Management manipulated the questions in a recent employee survey to force responses that made it look like there was improvement year over year. Of course, when you add a new President between the employees and the CEO peoples opinion of senior management is improved. Of course when you shift the focus to immediate management from senior management, the responses will be improved. Try issuing the exact same survey as the prior year and see how much "real" improvement there was in the numbers.

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