Wretched low Pay, Extremely High Demands - Rater ETS Employee Review

1.0
4 May 2019
Recommend
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Pros

what are the pros here

Cons

-Terrible, terrible pay. The pay has been Reduced and it is NOT commensurate with the difficulty of the work. -Extremely high stress job. They have extremely High demands for perfection & High quotas/Daily/Hourly/Second by Second Monitors. -Difficult tests that need to be taken 2-4 times per day. They are loaded with trick questions. If you fail, they make a note so it counts against you and your future hours. Also surprise tests are given at random, so you have to spend part of your short 30 minute lunch break studying! You also have study on your off time if you want to "pass". No additional pay for that off course. - Considering the difficulty & lofty demands of this job, (We are also told it's a High Stakes Test) I feel like a brain surgeon/pilot that is only making minimum wage! Yet we only have the flimsy title of "Rater" -No raises, vacation pay, end of the year bonuses Ever. If we do a good job and finish early we get enjoy being Cancelled for the next day or two. So less of a paycheck even if you have cancelled plans, jobs, or anything else that could have earned you Income.

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Pros

Intelligent, caring, hardworking, professional co-workers

Cons

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1.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

Support of immediate management and coworkers makes coming to work every day a pleasure.

Cons

Where to start... First, the employee performance evaluation process and methodology has changed from 1) performance vs your job description to 2) OKRs which were completely unattainable and meaningless at every level to 3) rocks and outcomes which again have very little to do with the day to day jobs of most employees. It seems the burden for goals and objectives and performance management has shifted from management to employees as they try to define a methodology that holds only doers responsible for the company's success. All this since Amit Sevak took over. Management manipulated the questions in a recent employee survey to force responses that made it look like there was improvement year over year. Of course, when you add a new President between the employees and the CEO peoples opinion of senior management is improved. Of course when you shift the focus to immediate management from senior management, the responses will be improved. Try issuing the exact same survey as the prior year and see how much "real" improvement there was in the numbers.

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