Jensen Hughes reviews

Where to start? OK, How about focusing on money first, last, and in between too, since that’s all the owners (Griffin Investments) and Paul Orzeske and Raj Aroura seem to ever care about anyway. Too many mergers in a short time threw too many different cultures together until it quickly became a cutthroat, competitive environment between all “ legacy firms” as they teach us to call the warring factions. But they gave everybody the same lapel pins with a company logo on them, so we must be a team, right? LOL Some REALLY costly purchases have been made, such as a really old, obsolete type of “proprietary software” that nobody can really figure out how to monetize, and a real low-end “forensic division” that simply consists of a bunch of fumbling, back woods ambulance chasers doing insurance investigations work for peanuts. The execs and investors got sold a huge bill of goods on that acquisition, and now there are way too many meetings trying to get other divisions excited and trained in “forensics work”. Nobody with a degree from a halfway decent college wants their name attached to ambulance chasing lawyers! This leaves many of us with good ole common sense, and pride in our engineering careers, scratching our heads, wondering what the execs are thinking? Slick-talking management on conference calls trying way too hard to sell us how great the new improved combined company is while they cut our benefits, and actually want people to work from home so they can shut down the expensive offices they have finally realized they can’t afford after paying so many execs to leave, and constantly funding huge expensive parties for executives, while telling the rest of us to cut back on in person client services for our core clientele.

Very difficult to get a raise even if you are meeting all of your goals. Bonuses are little to none. I want to note that a bonus is in fact something extra and not guaranteed but when a company creates goals that appear to be pulled out of thin air and not based on previous years then it seems to be impossible to get a decent bonuses not matter how hard everyone works. Management appears to not care about what engineering staff thinks needs to change to make the company a more pleasurable experience. Jobs are continually going over budget since billing rates are so high that we need to underbid jobs to get them. Quarterly meetings are pointless as the Q and A section only answers "softball" questions while ignoring questions that are an attempt to have engineering staff actually have a discussion on how to fix JH. Benefits are poor. Since we are owned by a financial investment firm all that matters is profit. Company morale and performing quality technical work are not a true concern for upper management.