Trainers only seen as marching boots - Training Specialist DSS, Inc. Employee Review

3.0
Feb 21, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great work-life balance, good benefits, average pay, pretty ok bonuses. Not micro-managed, trusted to do the job independently. Good team environment, if you need help or any assistance you can find it easily. Felt very supported by department manager when having issues with product manager. Executive management seems to care for employees, gave 40 hours PTO for COVID.

Cons

Only seen as marching boots when the position requires so much more for success. No room for growth or upward movement. Will move you to any product with extensively more or less travel regardless of what product you were actually hired for. They have now changed everyone in the department's title from "Clinical Implementation specialist" and reduced everyone to just "training specialist" regardless of clinical background or expertise which is their way of making sure you remember that you are only a soldier, get your marching orders and go. Manager will try to get you as cheap as possible, saw someone onboard for almost $20k less than others, sad. Manager also refuses to give top review rating for bonus regardless of results.

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2.0
Sep 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Competitive pay - Caring CEO (to an extent) - Fully remote for some roles

Cons

- Lack of communication between teams - Lack of structure and planning - A LOT of older people who are stuck in their ways - HR is a joke and lack empathy - MAJOR lack of diversity (saw a number of PoC subjected to a lot of microagressions and bullying tactics) - Gotta be a brown noser to succeed - Some employees have too much pull when it comes to team dynamics - Underhanded tactics and unethical policies to meet quotas and make the numbers pretty - HDHP is the only option for employee insurance which is surprising since majority of the executives and team leads are rapidly aging. The OOP is astronomical if you go to the doctor regularly - Benefits are meh at best; be prepared to spend A LOT of money OOP - They say you can add family members to the plan at a set cost but they make you go through hell and back to add them. HR can be very facetious when trying to access certain benefits they don’t want to pay for even though they offer it due to cost concerns

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