Best job I have had so far after 11 years working! - Operations Manager Focal Systems Employee Review

5.0
Aug 29, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have had 6 jobs over 11 years, and I have to say this is the best one so far no question! The energy, the people. It really is like jumping aboard a rocket ship. I read some of the GD posts before coming on and they come in two buckets. Really positive and really negative. I guess that is the way it always goes with reviews. I do not get how people could not enjoy working here. Applying cutting edge AI to automate legacy stores? What is better? Working at Bell or Rogers? Crazy to me that people had negative things to say about the CEO. The All Hands he runs are my favorite part! He walks through everything we have accomplished which is always a ton. Hearing the full vision of the company and where we are going. Growing 400% a year. It is awesome! He is fantastic and a visionary. I have no idea what those other posts are talking about. I believe they got let go for performance reasons, and wanted to "get revenge" after.

Cons

We are figuring out all the ways to scale and that has been tough. We are now in a good rhythm with installs but I am sure it will get even better.

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5.0
Dec 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

High growth rate, brilliant people, CEO has excellent vision!

Cons

Have to sacrifice a bit on WLB

2.0
May 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

My manager at the time didn’t breathe down my neck and the work wasn’t very difficult. You were paid for travel time and miles driven to each job site.

Cons

The job location kept changing every few days going to every ShopRite in the area. You are on your feet 100% of the time when you’re working. They got my pay wrong on multiple occasions and did nothing to truly rectify the issue. The issue was so bad that the payroll coordinator quit because of all the requests for changes. You would have to drive to every job site with your own vehicle and sometimes you wouldn’t know until a day before. It was never told to me that the job was temporary. Once we finished the jobs at ShopRites in the general Tri-State area I was unceremoniously laid off without my knowledge while promises of more work were made by my manager. Once we were finishing up the list of stores and we were told that there would be no more work we became unmotivated to continue but my manager lied to us saying there would be maintenance work available after but there was none. They called 2 weeks after the last job to let me know I was laid off.

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