OK place to work, but not much career progression - Anonymous employee SintecMedia Employee Review

2.0
Mar 24, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Travel - Variety of different clients across all continents - Mostly working in teams - Good sized team - Solid software compared to competitors - Good development staff

Cons

- No new recruits as the company is trying to save money by outsourcing to Romania and paying Romanians to come to the UK to work instead (paying them an astonishing low rate of £300 a month) - Sintec cut a lot of old Pilat staff away - Middle management wants to - Travel to countries that you don't want to travel to and is not safe to go to for long periods of time otherwise you're stuck in the Wembley office for months on end doing support work - Little to no pay rise - Management picks favourites to go to the most sought after locations not because of their achievements or skills but because they sucked up to management - A lot of hush hush and back channel bickering - Clients can be difficult due to lack of support from the company, a lot of distrust from clients in the business

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3.0
May 20, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Biggest pro are the employees. Everyone from top to bottom are so nice, intelligent, and helpful there. Processes and training (barely any training) leave a lot to be desired, but they are in the process of making things better. Management for the most part is good except for some old guard/new guard tug of wars. Pay was good, medical benefits were good although higher co-pays than I have had previously. Culture has grown since purchase of Operative as they have adapted their culture. Complimentary soft drinks, fruit and cereals. Also cater in bagels every Wednesday.

Cons

No training, no real direction. No 401k match. NY space is very cramped. ***no work/life balance. Employees work late nights and weekends a lot to make unrealistic deadlines and to meet with dev or QA who are in Israel and Romania. Company is transitioning over the methodology they do development, but in the interim it is very confusing and all over the place. Not a lot of understanding of the US market.

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