Waste of time! Low pay and high expectations - Recensione dipendente - Business Immigration Writer presso Ellis Porter

As stated in headline. Amazing people work here

There are no cons I can think of

Good health insurance policy and remote work.

Management style is extremely unsupportive and feels like they only look out for the senior attorneys who are able to churn out work. It feels like an autoshop where you sign up, get your tires changed, and then have the client proceed on their way - almost like a law firm conveyor belt. I echo the same feelings with the following reviews: "The culture is deceptively mean. Certain higher level employees are cliquey and simply not do their jobs, forcing everyone else to pick up the slack. They also take things personally and see criticism of the job as a personal attack against them. It makes getting anything done or fostering talented employees nearly impossible. This is made worse by a new restructuring of the firm that hamstrings everyone and leaves several employees without proper support. Management will frequently ask for feedback, but will be nasty and dismissive against employees and will abandon initiatives just as often. (I can't count the number of monthly surveys or weekly check-ins that were cancelled because management didn't care enough to keep them running.) They will also take away benefits and try to spin it as a positive, essentially pulling money directly out of employees' pockets while telling them they should be grateful to for the opportunity. They also have a habit of implementing new things without proper training, feedback, or concern about the work involved for other employees. Their attitude around these changes borders on cruel. For example, they recently started giving extremely hard projects to employees with no warning or training, and strong-arming them into essentially lying to get petitions approved. The clients the company has been retaining lately exacerbate this problem. The aforementioned restructuring is another example. I also know of multiple employees who do harder or more work than others in the same position and are not compensated for it. Whenever they try to get a title change or a pay increase, or at least some recognition for their contributions, management and HR get mean and personal instead of addressing the actual discrepancy in work and compensation. Every day feels like an uphill battle between employees who actually care about the work against everyone who doesn't. If you try to speak out, you're told it's your fault for caring, and you're just expected to roll with it because they said it with a smile. Working here is like having anxiety drip-fed into you; even writing this review makes me afraid of retribution." "To mask this flagrant abuse of their workers and clients, the management tries to gaslight them with promises of an “inclusive” work culture. No amount of buzzwords and bio pronouns can cover up how mean the culture actually is, including having the audacity to blame workers for “not meeting standards” when their own quota-driven approach makes meeting high standards impossible in the first place. Communication is also virtually nonexistent, even when it comes to major work policy changes. Especially given how rapidly the immigration field is changing, this is inexcusable, on top of the low pay and unrealistic workload. Forget career prospects too…many people working here simply use it as a step to a better job elsewhere. What truly puts a ribbon on top of all of this is it’s hard to get a job with Ellis Porter in the first place. The application process involves mastering a dense, esoteric writing sample, followed by three rounds of interviews. If you get hired, EP claims their acceptance rate is lower than Harvard. Whether or not this is true, it is absurd for people to have to jump through so many hoops for something that ultimately pays nothing and offers no stable career trajectory. Bottom line: stay as far away from Ellis Porter as possible. It sounds like a dream career, and by every measure should be. But it is ruined by greed and a lack of integrity that will certainly not be fixed anytime soon. It is a “Better Call Saul” plotline come to life, a cruel firm that plays games with people’s lives. Hopefully their days of preying upon desperate clients and workers is numbered…lawsuits, investigations, and disbarring are all in order to end this scam of a “firm.” Stay away, and seek a higher-paying position elsewhere." "The workload is unrealistic for the quality they expect, and during my time there editing other writers' briefs I encountered a lot of low quality content clearly generated by AI, which probably happened because the writers didn't feel they could meet expectations without it. Also, the number of RFEs that writers now have to deal with (an extremely complex and demanding type of case) has increased substantially due to current politics, but there has been absolutely no talk of increasing compensation to account for the extra work everyone has to do now. On the surface level, the company touts being greatly concerned with the employees' well-being and work-life balance, but it doesn't seem truly genuine. Many of my former colleagues I've spoken with about this have admitted to sometimes working more than 40 hours a week to meet these demands and feel that they can't say anything because of upper management's constant messaging to employees that they're very lucky to have received the opportunity to work at the best company ever (in last year's company-wide meeting, they presented statistics that compared the odds of getting hired by EP to getting accepted into Harvard, which seemed like an obvious way to boost employee morale and minimize the possibility of expressing discontent)." "Management boasts about how they are so much better and different from other "bad place" law firms, yet EP has turned into the exact same thing. People who have been here from the start can confirm EP has turned into exactly what it claims not to be, and how disheartening that is."