You'd be a fool to work here - Manager Concurrent Technologies Corporation Employee Review

If the CEO cares as much about Johnstown and CTC as he claims, the best thing he could possibly do is fire his entire executive team (with the exception of the CIO), restaff the board of directors and then hire a headhunter to find his replacement. CTC is nearly a walking dead company now, a term that sadly captures both its future prospects and company culture; under its current management approach, CTC will soon add to Johnstown's rapidly growing inventory of unoccupied buildings. Frankly, its shameful what has happened to this company. It used to be a great place to work and deliver great solutions to customers. Unfortunately, there was a recent reorganization that introduced a sad embrace of pitiful mediocrity, nepotism and promotion-by-others'-destruction into an already weakened culture. There are many wonderful and talented people below the executive level who are anxious to do something worthwhile, but management is more concerned with internal competitions to let any of this break through. Other points: - Business development is done on a shoestring budget, but with senior management expecting homeruns. - IR&D spending is non-existent. They advertise themselves as an innovative company, yet they invest far less than 0.5% in IR&D. - It is largely a "pass through" organization, where subs do most of the real technical work, and CTC performs the project management part - Seeinge the results of the Murtha/Congressional funding would make you vomit as a taxpayer - Management is 100% Johnstown-centric, a not-so-helpful business attitude when 100% of the customers are hours away - Management is completely deluded that everything is ok, complete refusal to acknowledge the real problems - Practically every member of management (VP and over) and at least 1/2 of the Executive Director staff is utterly clueless and a terrible choice for the job. Stop promoting friends, relatives and people who spit back what you want to hear! - It is a yes man culture. Differing opinions are received with hostiltiy, at best. Another reviewer mentioned that "CTC is where dreams go to die." I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. It wasn't until I joined another organization with healthy dynamimcs did I realize how much CTC had destroyed my spirit. The malaise is so widespread and intense that simply no one is willing to do anything to challenge the problems. Do yourself a favor and run.