Ruthless - Systems Engineer Empower Employee Review

2.0
Mar 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of good tech people and interesting projects. Doing a Major migration to AWS and it might be interesting to be part of the transition.

Cons

Ruthless and vicious place to work for. They just fired SIX managers within a hour notice. That's SIX managers, no special reason, they're not downsizing; actually they're growing. During the meeting they say it's because they're building new teams. Of those six managers, most of them been with the company for more than 15 YEARS! No warning, no chance to transition to other departments, just fired within an hour of the meeting. If you want to work in a place that have no sense of loyalty to your sense of commitment to them, then Great-West is the place to be. Otherwise stay away!

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