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Adjoined Consulting |
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everyone is entitled to their opinion |
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03/15/2005 |
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I work at Adjoined in our New York Office and have for a few years. The ongoing conversation on this board between mild mannered reporter and Corpliai has definitely caught my attention! The two of you suggest to us that you are speaking from experience with Adjoined and, while I mean no disrespect to either of you, the things you are conveying as facts are just plain not true. I won??t say that I can accurately argue revenue figures, organic-versus-acquired growth stats, or the VC rumor mill but your basic information is incorrect and misleading to folks that may be considering joining the company.
Just to touch on a few. I was with one of the elite strat houses you mention in your posting before being recruited to Adjoined and I have no regrets at all about my decision. I have a great job, I get to work with talented people and I do interesting work for my client. On my latest project, I have been working for 6 months with 12 other Adjoined professionals at a major CPG brand. Right now we have around 70 people in our New York office (actually located in 10 Exchange Place in Jersey City) and our office does project work for major banks, life sciences and CPG companies. Kevin Reid heads up our office and Adjoined??s Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture group and was recently PROMOTED to CTO.
You are entitled to your opinion and to the animosity if you feel your experience was bad at Adjoined but when representing ??facts?? you should refrain from fabricating information. This exchange is for professionals seeking career advice not for personal vendettas ?? Perhaps you are not former employees- but recruiters from another company trying to discredit us at Adjoined and if that is the case you undermine the value of this exchange.
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I stand corrected on the CTO issue
However when people throw terms like organic growth around they should be prepared to back it up with facts. It should be more than a catch phrase or a marketing gimmick
32% growth? of what? the top line? the bottom line? And Im not even disputing so much the numbers that are floated out there. My focus is on the treatment of the employees.
25-75% from 2000-2004? come on...
My posts have revolved around the treatment of the company employees; whether witnessed first hand or reported to me is of no conseqence. Suffice it to say that I have it on VERY FIRM AUTHORITY I have also tempered my posts with some positive comments about the people at the company. Read them and restore my faith in the assumption that as a good consultant you might research something fully before commenting
See some of the other posts as well.
My basic information concerns the treatment by the C Level and Officer level employees of their staff. And I can say without any fear of contradiction that there was and is a tremendous amount of pent up anxiety about this issue. Perhaps see the mbahottie post
If you were with one of the elite strategy houses before being recruited then you should have no problem in referring employees. Im sure the company would be happy to pay you for any one you cared enough about to refer in.
I can assure you that nothing I have said is fabricated. To the point of correcting myself when I am wrong.
As for undermining the value of this exchange...this is a weblog...a free exchange of words and ideas in an open forum for people seeking both sides of the story. Last time I checked, so long as you dont slander someone..its a free country.
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