ETS is a comfortable intellectual assembly line. - Assessment Specialist II ETS Employee Review

3.0
Aug 20, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good work / life balance - reasonable hours Interesting and very intelligent co-workers Better than being an adjunct (in terms of pay, time spent working, and self-respect) Paid hours (6, I think) for each employee for community service--company commitment to service

Cons

Stingy vacation / personal time policies (2 weeks to start for everyone, 7 personal days which are to be used as sick days but can't be banked), no sick time Little respect for test development work by senior management or by people in areas of the company outside of the test development area Little communication between different departments Company is trying to transition from sleepy academic enclave to more "corporate" style but seems incompetent at many aspects of being "run like a business." Repetitive work - intellectual factory line Extremely egomaniacal CEO

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5.0
Apr 11, 2025
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Pros

It was a good experience.

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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