Major changes for the worse over the past few years - Cloud Engineer Applied Information Sciences Employee Review

When I started a few years ago this seemed like a place that really cared about its people. An employee-owned organization that cared more about the people working for them than turning record profit after record profit each quarter. Somewhere in the last year this changed though. They brought on an outside investor and then all of a sudden everything was about peak billability and profits, growth no matter the cost. They rolled sick time into PTO resulting in fewer days off for many which they admitted was to reduce their own costs. So, no benefit to the employees that own the company. The vast majority of their sales team has turned over in the same time frame, resulting in fewer sales and delays in projects starting. Because of these delays you end up with less billable time and the second that happens they start eyeing you to be cut. As if you are responsible for going out and finding your own clients or projects. As I've been around longer, I can see management up and down the chain is a good old boys club where any issues you have with one works its way up. On top of this they have recently acquired another company, because all that matters now is growth at any cost. If they're letting go of their existing employees for lack of work for them to perform, what's the plan for onboarding an entirely whole other company? Leadership has lost what once made this a great place to work. A place I could see myself retiring. Culture destroyed. Outside of great pay there's nothing that separates AIS apart and I'm glad to have one foot out the door into my next role now.