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 22, 2018

Toxic environment, awful management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote working...and that's about it.

Cons

Literally everything else about the company. Executives and partners only care about the bottom line and are unencumbered by concerns about the work the company is doing. They force their underlings (including senior level management) to work themselves to death to serve their ever-changing whims to cut costs and increase profit. Dismissive of any input from staff regarding the feasibility of projects or engaging in new business. No recognition of performance or thought leadership. No sense of shared goals or responsibility. Once people reach management level or higher their performance, no matter how poor, is not questioned or addressed. Pay is below industry standards. All non-technical project delivery and corporate teams are perpetually understaffed and overworked due to high turnover and lack of consequences of bad workers. Corporate leadership constantly introduces new systems that do not work and are always "in development" while everyone is still required to use them. Management often asks lower-level staff to engage in blatantly non-compliant behavior for the sake of expediency. Project field teams are treated in a paternalistic manner, severely restricting their ability to perform and undercutting their work while sucking them into the dysfunctional environment of the corporate head offices. All company systems are run through Dubai and Australia, creating a severe backlog of requests for corrections of errors. Management constantly imposes immediate and arbitrary deadlines to help the company control costs while superseding the work employees are supposed to be doing. The company constantly espouses vacuous talking points about inclusion, diversity, opportunity, and personal enrichment and advancement while delivering on absolutely none of it. Corporate offices are all "open offices" that don't allow even a modicum of privacy for sensitive or confidential conversations. In summation, this company is a factory that churns through projects and employees to enrich the partners and executives at every other employee's expense.

1.0
Sep 4, 2018

Horrible management and culture

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Diverse set of projects across different sectors although very limited impact - Good office location and medical insurance - Strong knowledge and implantation of balanced scorecard

Cons

- unfriendly environment, managers and directors are very close so no one to express dissatisfaction to - unprofessional and unstructured project management, mostly research (much of which is outsourced) or PMO tracking no actual strategy - lack of clarity in terms of career progression - racist towards groups of people who form typical background - low salary compared to industry - lack for proper development in terms of trainings - have not developed past the balance scorecard which was designed ages ago and is almost useless now - weak and stagnating brand

1.0
May 4, 2018

Avoid working here at all costs

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The people working below the corporate level and project teams are mostly very smart, hard working and motivated by all the right reasons. Depending on the role there are opportunities to travel.

Cons

Where to begin? This organisation preaches 'positive impact' but only cares about enriching it's shareholders (all senior leadership within the company) at all costs. This means working people into the ground and making all project decisions based on maximising profits rather than what is the best for beneficiaries. Palladium has lost its way and now just funds useless acquisition after useless acquisition whilst punishing those working in international development which is still responsible for 90% of revenue in EMEA. Work conditions are awful, leadership and HR only there to squeeze every last drop of people's productivity and have absolutely no oversight for terrible decisions they've made. Everyone is trying to leave as quickly as possible before the company is sold on and broken up for parts.

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