Fragomen reviews about "layoff"

nonstop layoffs since Austin retired. Management does not care about staff

Frequent reorganizations and layoffs. Projects are often cancelled close to completion. Salaries are not competitive.

Return to office, first of all. I have never worked at a company that has shown so much contempt for its employees. The leadership really openly hates you. All decisions are made in a vacuum with no input, even high level management won't know until they receive the same email as everyone else. Huge layoffs with no promise of job safety. My manager wasn't even told when three of her direct reports were laid off. She found out by trying to send them a message and seeing their accounts deactivated. These are people with a life and a family, though I doubt anyone in the Fragomen leadership understands why those are important. Don't even think about applying here. This company will not exist in three years, max.

Layoffs are common and frequent.

But boy do they randomly lay people off (and not reason).

- Once you've been there for a while, the pay can seem mediocre. - Can be a bit bureaucratic (jumping through hoops just to find an answer to a simple question) - Work-life balance is a challenge - If you produce good work, they will put more work on you without a pay increase or promotion to reflect new responsibilities. - Feels like there might be an unspoken reality that paras will leave so no need to promote them or incentivize them to stay - You only get your full 401(k) match if you stay with the company for 5 years.

Overworked Layoffs recently Lack of growth and raises/promotions

Personal growth: there is none. Unless you are willing to put in 60 hours a week or more, you will be fired within 2-3 months. If you are willing to put in 60 hours a week or more, you can still be replaced. I was in the company for 9 months. In that time 1/3 to half the office staff had been changed. Work-life balance: employees are strongly pressured to work overtime. Those who are not willing to work 6 days a week are quickly replaced by those who are. Company values: the massive layoffs show that the company does not care about its individual people. Its treatment of people are ridiculous bad, examples ranging from the temps who are let go within a month to the temp-to-hires who are kept as temps for nearly a year to the new paralegals who are let go when the busy cap season is ended.

Terrible management clique and not a little bit of bitterness between sr. Attorneys who seemed to transfer their misplaced resentments upon jr. staff. The layoffs were terrible and while supervisors set expectations, they also willfully undermined those who weren't deemed a good fit - usually for maintaining some degree of individuality and self-dignity.