Incoherent vision, horrible culture - Anonymous employee Palladium Employee Review

I was employed by one of the disparate companies acquired between 2011-15 by GRM, an Australian "development" firm trying to gain a foothold in the U.S. market. In mid-2015, all of the companies were rebranded as Palladium. The previous GRM cabal, a clique of Australian and British men whose expertise is in trimming operational costs to the bone and finding tax havens, remains firmly in control, finding ways to funnel as much in fees and profit to themselves as possible. They seem to enjoy jetting around the world from their home base in Dubai, trailing stories of sleazy behavior and misogyny in their wake. They have no expertise in most sectors of international development and seemingly no desire to, preferring to use short-term consultants to execute technical work and focusing their energies on the financial side. During and after the rebrand, management implemented increasingly draconian, Sisyphean policies on staff, all the while framing its mission to "make it possible" in jargon-heavy, fatuous terms that no client with more than two brain cells would buy into. I decided that the company's values had become so opposed to my own that I couldn't continue working there.