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      2.6

      32% would recommend to a friend

      (205 total reviews)
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      Brian X. Tierney

      13% approve of CEO

      20% positive business outlook

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      2.0
      Feb 7, 2019

      Not what you know, who you know

      It analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits are very good and salary is competitive. There are good people in the organization and if your lucky you work for some of them.

      Cons

      Management often makes decisions prior to evaluating the decisions they make. They leave the validation to the employees who are forced to justify these sometime very poor decisions. Culture can be combative where managers often resort to shouting. This shouting management style comes from the top down in IT. Opportunities for advancement are very limited. If you're in the "Good Ol Boys club" you'll do fine.

      2.0
      Jul 23, 2018

      Stable, political, bad software practices

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good salary. Medical insurance with high deductible + FSA is fully paid for by the company. Full 6% 401k match. Up to 90% compensation for higher education. Chance to work on interesting projects. Real projects for interns. A lot of "job security" (if that's your thing) due to complicated processes and people retiring.

      Cons

      Strong culture of following the spreadsheet and never questioning anything. Reports must be "green" at any cost. Apathetic attitude toward software quality on all levels, from management to some developers. Management lacks technical knowledge and is not willing to learn or listen to developers. Miles of red tape for the smallest of production issues and one-line fixes. In-house applications have decades' worth of technical debt that is never cleaned up (due to all of the above). Favoritism bordering on racism and misogyny. Skilled developers and experienced analysts excluded from a project altogether while management's favorites with no relevant knowledge are assigned to leadership roles on the same project. Management doublethink: - Modernize an in-house application by creating a new UI, yet do not fix a broken 20+ years old database - Make in-house developers prove their changes are not malicious, yet allow a project to use 10,000+ third-party NPM packages. - Claim to be agile, yet set deadlines and release all of the application at once

      3.0
      Mar 29, 2018

      Steady

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good bonus program for all employees, utilized newer tools and software to keep work relevant.

      Cons

      Mature market and most people stay and never change jobs so it provides limited opportunity for advancement or job changes.

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