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Executive Director at YMCA
in Dover, DE

What do you like about working at YMCA?

"I like helping children and people to make their lives better."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be willing to work hard and you must be organized in order to survive the many tasks and interruptions."

What don't you like about working at YMCA?

"Too many demands with too few resources, and unclear goals and expectations."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would run the operation as a management team to work together to accomplish tasks."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Executive Director at Oppenheimer Holdings
in New York City, NY

What do you like about working at Oppenheimer Holdings?

"The firm does not take care of it';s employees. Cheap."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The problem is that the company is mean and lean shop mentality. Thus everyone wears multiple hats and runs multiple areas."

What don't you like about working at Oppenheimer Holdings?

"Compensation. Once you reach ED level your salary levels off and you don't get raises on a regular bases. More like every 3 years."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give more back to employees. Like pickup more $ for health benefits."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 1 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Executive Director at Christian Connection Ministries
in Margate, FL

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"I was able to help a lot of people with compassion and God's Love."

What do you like about working at Christian Connection Ministries?

"It was my to do with I want. I made my own hours."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Always be honest and truthful understanding that God is overseeing your life."

What don't you like about working at Christian Connection Ministries?

"Since I was the created and developer of the company. I liked working for it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I was the management and dealt with the clientele with the mercy of God."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Executive Director at Compass Group

What do you like about working at Compass Group?

"Great leadership. Very ethical practices. A lot of resources available for support."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No. Be honest and truthful and they will select the best candidate."

What don't you like about working at Compass Group?

"Just the specific assignment I am at. It is not the company's fault, just an unfortunate and isolated incident."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Executive Director at 20th Century Fox
in Century, FL

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"It was a pleasure to work at Fox."

What do you like about working at 20th Century Fox?

"Upward mobility, autonomy, pragmatic and simply a great company to work at."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself. Listen well and try not to talk too much. Be concise."

What don't you like about working at 20th Century Fox?

"No real negatives about working here other than the distance from home."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Perhaps provide more goal setting to middle management rather than training staff in a group environment."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Executive Director at CDI Corp.
in Washington, DC

What do you like about working at CDI Corp.?

"The people are great some of the best in the business."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Very tedious process be prepared for a long interview process."

What don't you like about working at CDI Corp.?

"New strategy set forth by the CEO, too many questions unanswered as well as uncertainty."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make sure that there are processes and procedures put in place and make sure everyone in the company is aware of what they are."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Executive Director at REACH Media
in Dallas, TX

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Very poor."

What do you like about working at REACH Media?

"The people I work with at Reach Media Inc. are great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do not come work here. This is a very toxic environment and you will not be treated well."

What don't you like about working at REACH Media?

"Upper management is very difficult to work with at Reach Media Inc."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Upper management should place a higher value on their employees and end the verbal abuse."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Executive Director at XSD Machine
in China, ME

What do you like about working at XSD Machine?

"I can achieve my value by working in the company"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Should show your best knowledge and ability to the interviewer"

What don't you like about working at XSD Machine?

"I am not quite agreeable with the culture of the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do better job by following the market rules in the future"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Executive Director at National Cyber Security Alliance
in Washington, DC

What do you like about working at National Cyber Security Alliance?

"I liked working with a lot of different people. I enjoyed the fast paced nature of the work. Every day something new happened. Always different."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for hard work. Be prepared to not always get the outcome you had in mind. It can be frustrating to work within coalitions. However, when it came together it was rewarding."

What don't you like about working at National Cyber Security Alliance?

"Some of the goals the board set were unreasonable. They did not have good expertise in running a business."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay more attention to hiring the right people for the right job. Focus on paying more attention to the high level issues. Put a better financial system in place."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Executive Director at CCC Group
in Newark, DE

What do you like about working at CCC Group?

"Flexibility, impact on helping others, colleagues, work has meaning to me, autonomy"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Care first and foremost about helping people. Be flexible, low maintenance and good team player."

What don't you like about working at CCC Group?

"Worrying about funding all the time. Juggling budget constraints against needs of staff."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I do run the day-to-day and report to a board of directors, so my responses related to the Board Chair. But I am the boss on the street. And I like that a lot!"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Executive Director at Cuyahoga Community College
in Cleveland, OH

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Very interesting work and a mixed bag of genuine people and academics"

What do you like about working at Cuyahoga Community College?

"Complex and highly demanding projects with substantial responsibility. Big ideas!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be patient. They move slow so be prepared for a long interview and hiring process."

What don't you like about working at Cuyahoga Community College?

"limited advancement and financial rewards. The expectation was for everyone to have a PHD."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Run things like a business, not an education institution. Realize students are customers."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Executive Director at El Canon International
in Panama, OK

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Enlightening! I had to learn the hard way how to become a boss!"

What do you like about working at El Canon International?

"That I have everything under my control and I have everything organized."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They have to be serious, professional and conscious that they are coming to work and not to play around and waste time."

What don't you like about working at El Canon International?

"Employees sometimes don't put their heart into their work! Sometimes they force me to do their job for them."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"well I am management, so probably I would suggest to myself to take it easy, and relax, no one likes a bad tempered boss."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Executive Director at Northrop Grumman
in Linthicum, MD

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"The current leadership is at a loss."

What do you like about working at Northrop Grumman?

"They do try to take care of employees and emphasize diversity."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"We are now doing panel interviews, so be prepared to answer your areas of expertise in details."

What don't you like about working at Northrop Grumman?

"Our senior leadership is at a loss and their strategic visions are limited."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to plan, not what's in front of them today, but plan for tomorrow. Provide values to customers and warfighters."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Executive Director at Polynesian Cultural Center
in Palo Alto, CA

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"As a Founding Executive Director, I still treasure this program."

What do you like about working at Polynesian Cultural Center?

"I like developing programs to make a difference in young people's lives."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The program is no longer exist so I don't have any tips for others."

What don't you like about working at Polynesian Cultural Center?

"It was very challenging trying to fundraise to run the program activities and to pay the employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Managing a non-profit organization needs passion, skills and lots of patience."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Executive Director at Northwest Neighborhood Federation
in Chicago, IL

What do you like about working at Northwest Neighborhood Federation?

"We served the community and provided rsources that were hard to come by."

What don't you like about working at Northwest Neighborhood Federation?

"It was hard to obatin funding for the programs offered by the organization."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I was management - maybe changing the vision of the organization but then we might have lost our mission."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
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