RKD Group Reviews

Supervisors and managers do not receive any management training and are unqualified to manage other employees. Onboarding process is minimal at best. This is not a family friendly company. Paternity leave is not offered and maternity leave is almost non-existent. One employee who manages two others, on multiple occasions, admitted to me that she set up her own direct reports for failure in attempt to force them out of the company because they were “unliked.” Innovation is incredibly slow and not well communicated to the rest of the company. HR has turned a blind eye to several complaints from different people of one employee’s inexcusable behavior towards others. That employee is still employed there and often celebrated because of their work, in spite of all these complaints. As you can imagine, the turnover rate is incredibly high at this company. In my time there I saw more than 8 people leave or be fired from RKD group. Expect to be called and texted by bosses and supervisors at any time, day or night, business hours or not.

- Work/life balance is BAD during the final quarter of each year. Unfortunately, that is the reality of working with ONLY nonprofit clients. You can’t just take all of Thanksgiving week or Christmas week off because there is too much work to be done. If your team is understaffed, you’re stuck working at a time when you’d rather travel or just visit family. - C-Suite executives took too long to make a decision on the remote/work-from-home policy. - C-Suite executives are not transparent about the state of the company's success (or failures). We were told last year that the company was doing ok, but after seeing all the layoffs in the past months, it is clear that executives have not been completely honest with us. - Many departments are UNDERSTAFFED and this injustice is not fair to employees and not fair to clients. C-Suite executives over-promise clients and under-staff employees. - Leadership is NOT EMPATHETIC towards its employees of color. In light of #BlackLivesMatters and #StopAsianHate, there has been no public stance taken on those social matters from the CEO. - I have seen TOO MANY POC employees leave the company or be laid off in the past few years. Considering that the diversity of employees is very little to begin with, the turnover rate for POC employees compared to white employees is very, very HIGH. This is an unhealthy pattern that is not addressed at all. - For the longest time, I’ve noticed a lot of employees, who are not the best at their jobs, get promoted. The company does give out a lot of “trophy” promotions. - There are too many directors, senior directors, senior executives, etc. and not enough coordinators and associates: the people who are ACTUALLY carrying out the work for clients. - The company spent way too much money on useless swag. Employees don’t need an excessive amount of company-branded lip balm, or baseball caps, or socks.