Wait a few years to apply - Anonymous employee ETS Employee Review

1.0
Jun 26, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Strong mission, excellent co-workers, remote available.

Cons

Currently trying to get rid of as many employees as a humanly possible. There have been three or four rounds of layoffs in the last year with more coming. ETS will be unrecognizable in five years; wait and see what it turns into before you even consider applying.

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5.0
Mar 5, 2025
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Pros

ETS have a group of outstanding researchers

Cons

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1.0
May 22, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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