Great place to get started.... - Associate bei SPMB: Mitarbeiterbewertung

3.0
13. Nov. 2014
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Pros

They gave me a great opportunity to immerse myself in the intersection of business and technology. I got to work on a variety of roles across all functional aspects, which enabled me to quickly become an expert in identifying patterns/trends to how successful companies are built, the process of identifying and hiring key executives as well as the crazy impact the right hires can have. When I joined the research team wasn't very big so I got to work for and with a lot of the leadership team - great experience when you are in a services industry. Generally speaking, the people are great.

Kontras

Limited and slower career growth opportunities. The structure of the company creates a situation where they are reluctant to give people the opportunity to build, lead and drive their own business. Each time they do that creates a vacuum underneath a project leader (partner, vp etc) and disrupts their process and revenue generation capability. This is feared vs encouraged...ultimately, that is a great thing for business and should not be held back. Misaligned and muted compensation. There were (don't know if this has changed) multiple comp structures that varied based on who you worked for. They also limit the upside for people that "kill it" by leaning too heavily on a base salary vs a commission-based structure. Comp should be directly tied to how money comes in, not at the discretion of the partners that are looking out for their own compensation. Having the silo'd org structure also ties you to your boss' desire to run a certain amount of business. Creates upside opportunities that can vary wildly across the firm at the same position. They don't invest in technology. Given the world we all work in (tech) it's surprising they would not want to invest in the very thing that drives the business. Creates massive inefficiencies and is also a result of leadership wanting to limit overhead and maximize their own profit. As an example, they have recruiters run IT as a part of their job b/c having a full time IT person was too expensive. That is just for phones, servers etc and doesn't even begin to address technology that can actually enable faster processes, more/better business and increased revenue. Culture is way too buttoned up and based on "fear of failure". I love working hard but prefer to do so b/c I love what I do, who I work with and am driven to be great. Working hard enough not to get fired is not the same as working hard to be great.

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This post is pretty questionable. The individual joined a direct competitor and is clearly taking a shot at us, which is just small ball IMHO. I would offer some color on how he performed here (or didn't) and general behavior, but we'd rather take the high road... We've invested a ton of money in technology and have a far more sophisticated platform now than the firm he joined. They went proprietary, we went standards based but ours is 100% open to our clients, password protected, where clients see everything we're doing. Other firms have gimmicky databases that don't actually show the client everything they want or need to see. Ours does. They show clients what they want them to see, we show them everything. We're 100% web based, cloud based, run a sophisticated IP phone system, etc. So the comments about technology are just flat wrong. Our compensation is also the most transparent formula in the industry, hands down. This guy hasn't been with our company in at least 5 years. And when he was here, he was one of the lowest performers in the company. I'll also say that our firm is growing, their firm is not. Our firm has never lost a single partner, theirs loses them all the time. Their turnover rate is probably 2-3X what ours is. So readers: the source here is not only wrong, but has an agenda.

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