Control Risks reviews

Favoritism, smugness and tunnel vision beyond belief. A bunch of white guys patting each other on the backs. You won't get to the top unless you fit a very narrow mold. Stale, retrogressive groupthink. Horrible for women. Offices everywhere, whether India, China, South Africa, Dubai or Colombia, run by white guys. Like colonialism never ended. Which is ok for the security director clients who are the same, but ensures company is ultimately far less interesting than it might appear.

-Opaque pay structure, which results in people with the same experience, same work ethic, and capacity being paid wildly different salaries. Overall, the salaries are far from being market competitive. -Opaque promotion mechanisms. People are being held back for no clear personal or business reason, while promotion procedures sometimes feel like a moving target. There is a general lack of structure for professional development and growth in some departments. Even really ambitious and motivated people eventually give up in trying to understand how it works. -The company has lost a large number of junior staff in the last year, largely due to the above points. Instead of regrouping and developing a better approach on how to retain talented staff, the company has started raising non-compete clauses against junior staff as a punitive measure for those leaving and a warning for those considering leaving.