Geller & Company

I've been at Geller for less than 1 year, and I can confidently say that you are up for a good challenge that this is a place to consider your career. I wouldn't say this is a really fast place environment, but one that has healthy challenges and provides opportunity for you to really get to know the organization given people's willingness and how open they are, and also because the company is only about 600 people or so. 

I decided to join Geller because of the direction they are going in terms of new initiatives they are driving and how they are making strides to create more opportunities for their people.

The company does some cool philanthropic work, employee engagement activities and celebrations for those who have professional milestones.

Some team members are not too skilled technically. Management is pretty much non-existent. No internal development but if you are a self-starter and have strong work ethic you will easily outshine others. Not sure yet about promotions. Culture is relaxed, people are almost too laid back. No one asks about work until the day before it’s due or sporadically when they need something “urgently”.  Hardest part of the job is getting other people to do their job, and juggling multiple clients. Most enjoyable part is the cool people and free snacks every day. It can get a bit gossipy since the team is fairly small. Also lots of passive aggressive people , it seems like everyone is scared to say how they feel in a direct way. Last, pay is good for the work you actually do. It’s pretty simple, stay organized and you’ll have no issues. 

Owner/founder continues to say all the right things about culture, yet the opposite occurs. He is surrounded by yes-women and the truth is never dealt with, Blame-based, bully culture where nastiness is rewarded. Current atmosphere is awful; all areas supporting their key account are miserable. Only the "friends" of the CFO are recycled, regardless of performance. HR department is functionally useless. 

Positive: Women dominate the upper positions at the firm and key account. All talented, though there are some with some wicked tempers and they foster the blame-and-bully culture.

Great benefits. During my tenure employee contributions were low and the quality of the benefits was high. CTO was brilliant I loved working for him.  The management team in technology was extremely skilled. Great group of people to work with. 
The days could be long and stressful it was a very demanding client base but at the same time wonderful people.  Great place to learn. Technology was cutting edge. Small firm so advancement at higher levels was few and far between. Great place for techs to start lots of opportunity at hat level.

Heavy emphasis on group meetings during the day which invitees are expected to attend. The co worker mix is generally collaborative and the focus is deploying the resources to get it right. There is over emphasis on 360 feedback for performance evaluation which is unreliable because there is no accountability for the raters.

While working on a project with various teams everything would go very well.  However you never knew when priorities would be shifted and completely change. This was due to the constant change in upper leadership and the 'revolving door' of CEOs and business unit directors  that came and went 

This is a great company to work at for entry level positions. The benefits are top tier, and the biggest perk to the company. There is a good work culture and an active approach to diversity and inclusion. The room for growth in the company is limited however, depending on the departments. Management and HR also have much to improve on. 

My experience at Geller taught me a lot. However, I found it to be a stressful work environment, with little or no worklife balance. Management had unrealistic expectations with workload and the culture felt like I was part of a sweatshop. This evident by the high turnover. 

The IT Managers are looking to defend their own teams from work and creates an heated political atmosphere constantly rather than complete the task at hand. 

The IT team members themselves are extremely collaborative and always willing to assist one another.

Great place to get your feet wet if you are a beginner; Lots of wonderful and very nice people.  Opportunities for advancement are very poor.  There is a lot of blatant favoritism if a higher up likes you.

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