Palladium reviews

4.0

86% would recommend to a friend

(564 total reviews)

Chris Hirst

84% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Palladium has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 564 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Palladium employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Gerenciamento e consultoria industry (3.7 stars).

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564 reviews
1.0
Mar 23, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

There are good people who work here.

Cons

The work environment created at Palladium is toxic. This isn't just from the perspective of top down senior management. There is constant jocking and "punishment" coming from line management if there are personal issues. Senior management seems to be so disconnected from the day to day that they are unable to understand where the staff is coming from. The "Diversity and Inclusion" of this company is a joke, they have an inability to keep people of color. The recruitment efforts have made strides in recruiting a more diverse crop, however the discriminatory actions of line managers and hiring managers derails this because they are always looking for a "specific type of person". Their D&I person for the office is a white man who is very lovely but clueless about issues of diverse communities. Furthermore, their "dedication to hiring more diverse people" seems to be limited to junior positions as the partner leadership team at palladium is all white, the senior leadership team is all white with one woman of color and the line management leaders are majority white... They claim to have an environment of movement and promotion, however instead of promoting from within, they will re-distribute the work of employees who have left to lower level employees under the guise of "experience" without a promotion. They peddle this idea of upward mobility while superficially calling out good work in meetings while employees work 60+ hour weeks without an increase in pay. Bottom line, you will be un happy here, if you want to work in ID, there are better places to look, especially if you are a person of color... the all white CLT and upper Management, not to mention the white male D&I person in the office is evidence that their lip service to diversity is just that.

1.0
Sep 30, 2020
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work environment; abusive/gaslighting directors that continue to be employed leave leeway for you to "misbehave" without any discipline

Cons

Company will preach they are about impact, but they are about profits (hard to avoid when you are a for-profit company). If they were about impact, the projects pursued would be different and varied beyond USAID-only (since USAID is one of the only funders where Palladium's egregious indirect costs are acceptable). Leadership will say they are "working on dealing with" high-level employees who continuously abuse/gaslight their mainly female team members, but they actually are not, since people who bring in business but abuse employees are prioritized over the health and sanity of said employees. Company's systems are archaic and disorganized, processes are not transparent and you won't even know who to ask if you have any questions anyway. Most US-based staff show little respect for field country offices and staff which creates an uncomfortable work environment. Company also says they care about equity, however "equity" is defined by Palladium and does not align with the actual concept of equity, and there is no path for recourse if you feel you are being compensated inequitably.

2.0
Mar 19, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Technical teams are passionate and innovative. Most people love the immediate teams and colleagues they work with and even their immediate line managers.

Cons

The (Australian based) corporate management does not understand the need for more robust corporate services to support their project teams. Despite repeated request for additional staffing and support in areas like accounting/payments/financial management, contracts and compliance, recruiting/HR there seems to be little to no movement from corporate leadership to address these issues which teams have been raising for years. Consequently turnover remains high, morale is slipping and project quality is suffering.

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