21CT has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 32 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The 21CT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).
Interesting projects and what used to be a wide variety of research topics
Some intellectual freedom to pursue bleeding-edge research and spin-off topics
Cons
Favoritism, nepotism, ageism, elitism
Time is managed by billable hours; almost impossible to take vacation or sick days
Desire to focus on IT-like products to homogenize workforce and minimize salaries
Company is top-heavy: too many director chiefs, few tribal councillors and too few Indians
21CT Response
13y
Thank you for your feedback; we hope that you also shared this with company leaders when you were here and did not wait until leaving to share your thoughts. We certainly don't view our team members as cogs and we are often humbled by the knowledge and talent that our employees bring to the organization. It seems as though this was not a good cultural/personality fit and sometimes that is just to be expected. We wish you much success.
The opportunity to set research direction, write proposals, win business, deliver systems to wonderful customers was hard for me to leave.
Cons
Management does not believe in delivering quality and has decidedly moved away from research and development as a focus to basic IT services, hiring people of less quality in the process. Since the goal of the company is to charge the government for every hour of your time, they make it very hard to take vacations or even holidays without making up the time sitting at a desk. The company is clearly not goals-oriented, but hours-oriented.
21CT Response
13y
Thank you for the feedback. While the strategic direction of the company has changed in recent years, we strongly believe that our team members are some of the best and brightest in the industry.
We hope that you have found an organization that you can be proud to be a part of, and we wish you much success.
According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, 21CT employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at 21CT. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
61% of 21CT employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated 21CT 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.