Inept management, no leadership - Anonymous employee Golder Associates Employee Review

There's a review below that I think demonstrates Golder's problems very well. A Principal says that the only negative is long hours, and advice to management is to "keep up the good work." That's how the Principals think: everything great, the CEO is king, and if there's a problem it's because you aren't working hard enough. With roughly 90% of the reviews here saying management is terrible, non-existent, bullying, or otherwise bereft of leadership (a sentiment shared by almost everyone who isn't a Principal), saying "keep up the good work" is either willfully ignorant or is coming from a position so far removed from the working conditions that the building could be on fire and they wouldn't notice. Suffice it to say, when you have an entire group of seniors who feel this way the results can be catastrophic. While reading these reviews any post with Principal in the title can't be taken as accurate. The Principals collectively run the company, so in the case of the review I mention, this Principal is telling themselves to "keep up the good work." We see the same behavior in communications where they talk about what great leaders they think they are. The rest of us just eye-roll. In all my years at Golder I've never had a client demand long or late hours from me. Never. Our clients do not care about that. The long hours usually happen because the project manager ignored the deadline until two days prior and then wanted a slew of changes made to the work you delivered weeks ago.