This is the worst company I've ever worked for - Anonymous employee Regional Economic Models Employee Review

** The CEO of this company has gone around the company telling current employees to write positive Glassdoor reviews in an attempt to "fix" the company's reputation here. ** The CEO trusts no one and micromanages everything, which doesn't work well. He yells at his own people and thinks that this is how you display leadership. He randomly hires handfuls of employees at a time and then starts firing them when he realizes he has too many employees - another review mentioned a Hunger Games style competition for a job you already have and I can back this up, I watched it happen. He charges into meetings with clients and demands more money for no particular reason, and has a habit of barging in at the end of negotiations and ruining the sale. Yelling louder and listening less is a good summary of his style - I've seen him ignore valid points made by other people and just yell his own point louder and louder until everyone else gives up. He also can't see the long-term. If something will make him a million dollars three years from now or a hundred thousand tomorrow, he'll pick the hundred thousand now.He has literally screwed himself and the company out of tens of millions of dollars this way. The rest of the place is a mess. Overall people are just worn down by the CEO. The economists do whatever they want with no repercussions, because management refuses to lay down any sort of discipline besides screaming and firing. The marketing department is largely untrained and has no actual marketing education , so a lot of work comes down to guessing what to do and not having a plan at all. Human resources tries to micromanage almost as much as the CEO and involve themselves in everything even down to IT decisions that have nothing to do with them. The clerical/reception staff is incompetent and has no people skills at all. I don't know why they're the first people you see when you walk in the door. The software development team is largely standoffish and doesn't want to do anything outside their normal work, especially talking to people on the phone or changing established procedures