Condeco reviews

No place is best so cons can be neglected in contrast to pros.

Absolutely NO respect for employees: -Very low compensation and benefits. Salary is lower than industry standard, insurance options are bottom of the barrel, and there is no 401k match. -Sudden and frequent reduction in holidays and travel reimbursements. Higher-ups will cut every corner possible to save a penny. Ridiculous and disrespectful. -Mass lay-offs occur frequently and without warning. Entire knowledge bases are lost and the workloads of many are dumped onto the few remaining people. After realizing that they've made an enormous mistake, management will hire replacements, but somehow manage to hire generationally-untalented personnel that should not have been given a chance. -Executives are not interested in genuinely listening to feedback or criticism from employees. As a result, there is rarely any improvements to your predicaments. The problems you have on your first day will exist on your final day. -Don't even think about asking for a raise, find it at a different company. Subpar Product -Most of the time is spent troubleshooting and documenting bugs, then coming up with work-arounds to create some semblance of a working product. -Products are released to market prematurely and have significant number of bugs as a result. -Expectations are unrealistically set by the sales teams, so customers are left anticipating a solution that can't be delivered. -Even if customer expectations are reasonable, the product just doesn't work that well, as it is very slow and inconvenient. As an employee, this is not a product you can believe in and you have no desire to put in any effort. -Not an end-user friendly product. Customer-side managers or executives often purchase the product without consulting their end users. End-users then find out that they hate the product and don't want it once it is rolled out. -Industry just needs one competent competitor to drive Condeco out of business. Mundane, Meaningless work: -Meeting Room Scheduling. This product offering is a solution to a problem that shouldn't really exist. Meetings are the single biggest waste of time in the modern day work place, and your job is to help facilitate them. You will not find any fulfillment or purpose here. You contribute nothing meaningful to the world. -The product itself is poorly conceived and executed. Most of your day is spent getting yelled at by (rightfully) angry clients. And if they're not angry, they're technologically illiterate so that's just as bad. -Any interesting tech work is being outsourced to India. The consultant role is now a glorified Customer IT support role whose main responsibility is to travel to client sites and manually flash hundreds of faulty devices. Aside from the toll it takes on your sanity, it is also physically unpleasant, as you have to crouch under desks and dig through a bunch of wiring. The devices are designed in such a way that they need to be opened to update and in order to open them you rely heavily on your fingernails, so they take a beating. Baffling Executive Leadership: -To put it politely, the executive team are a bunch of used-car salesmen who are lucky that gullible customers think that British accents translate into credibility. -The company benefits from being in an uncrowded industry, therefore it can stumble its way into revenue and survive despite its repeated bad decisions. -Despite being a software company, a lot of people in the C-level are barely computer-literate. -Executive leadership are bean-counters that ignore big picture or any long-term implications. Decision making for them is an immediate math problem and it seems like they disregard all context or future consideration. -Ultimately, the whole work burden falls entirely on few technical/client facing roles, who quickly become overworked and quit. -Endless cycle of mass-layoffs, reorganization, hiring under-qualified people, all the while bleeding the actual contributors who are sick of this process. Bull in China shop approach to decision making.