RKD Group Reviews

- Work/life balance is BAD during the final quarter of each year. Unfortunately, that is the reality of working with ONLY nonprofit clients. You can’t just take all of Thanksgiving week or Christmas week off because there is too much work to be done. If your team is understaffed, you’re stuck working at a time when you’d rather travel or just visit family. - C-Suite executives took too long to make a decision on the remote/work-from-home policy. - C-Suite executives are not transparent about the state of the company's success (or failures). We were told last year that the company was doing ok, but after seeing all the layoffs in the past months, it is clear that executives have not been completely honest with us. - Many departments are UNDERSTAFFED and this injustice is not fair to employees and not fair to clients. C-Suite executives over-promise clients and under-staff employees. - Leadership is NOT EMPATHETIC towards its employees of color. In light of #BlackLivesMatters and #StopAsianHate, there has been no public stance taken on those social matters from the CEO. - I have seen TOO MANY POC employees leave the company or be laid off in the past few years. Considering that the diversity of employees is very little to begin with, the turnover rate for POC employees compared to white employees is very, very HIGH. This is an unhealthy pattern that is not addressed at all. - For the longest time, I’ve noticed a lot of employees, who are not the best at their jobs, get promoted. The company does give out a lot of “trophy” promotions. - There are too many directors, senior directors, senior executives, etc. and not enough coordinators and associates: the people who are ACTUALLY carrying out the work for clients. - The company spent way too much money on useless swag. Employees don’t need an excessive amount of company-branded lip balm, or baseball caps, or socks.

This company is owned by a venture capital group who are implementing a growth-by-acquisition strategy that has a gross billings amount goal. Since venture capital firms are not altruistic, they will obviously be looking to sell the entity at some future date in order to generate a profit from their significant investment. This tends to make the future uncertain for all but the very top of the company food chain, regardless of the rhetoric stating otherwise spouted by senior management. Additionally, purchasing and merging companies comes with it's own set of issues, including job duplication, cultural disconnects and process rifts. The uncertainty, poor management and heavily board-driven oversight and direction of this company serves to foster low morale among most of the employees, particularly those who are not in management positions.