Quest Global reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(4,669 total reviews)
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Ajit Prabhu

91% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Quest Global has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 4,669 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Quest Global employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
May 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

One good thing about working here is the flexibility of hours. You can pretty much come and go without getting hassled by management (differing depending on who your manager is), as long as it's reasonable. If you want to skip out early on a Friday, it's not problem as long as you get your work done. Overtime is also an option when the engineering department is swamped, which can be nice. You get paid time (not time and a half).

Cons

Someone in upper management at this center has a motto which everyone knows: "fake it until you make it". There is no technical career path here. You get exposed to some entry level tasks, which are great to start out with, but that is about all you can do. The only way to move ahead (or get any sort of significant raise) is to go into management, which means you won't be doing any engineering work. My benefits are not good for an engineering company. There is a 401k match, however, it is abysmal. Starting salaries are low, and raises are even lower. You will have to work here for at least 4 years in order to hit the average starting salary for a mechanical engineer in Connecticut. You will get a sense that nobody in management cares about you or the company, just hitting metrics. They won't fire people so they can hit their attrition metrics, even when customers complain daily. Metrics are taken more seriously than good business decisions, and that is not a good sign.

1.0
Feb 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Minimal technical knowledge required. (Basic Excel knowledge) Flexible work schedule if your SOW permits. Free tea and coffee. Lots of downtime depending on SOW.

Cons

Limited internal career growth. Limited external career growth. Lower than average industry pay. Bad Vacation/Holiday time. (PTO system) Outsourced HR activities. Benefits might be there (401k ect.) but they're negligible. No Cafeteria. Bad Bathrooms. Very stratified work environment. Poor understanding of customer expectations. No engineering content. You have to file for unemployment during customer shut downs which occurs annually.

1.0
Jan 30, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Projects are interesting and challenging Work with commerical softwares Good place to gain experience and then go where the grass is greener Benefits are descent

Cons

Not an American company, HQ based in Singapore Inability to retain and acquire talent HR does not post job openings to get experienced engineering, sends emails to entice us to look for talent for them Always acquiring "freshers", engineers fresh out of college Experienced engineers then must teach and accelerate the learning curve for the "freshers" Training is frowned upon because it affects the applied ratio Basically we're just programmed robots to essentially do similar jobs all the time Profit driven managers Yearly assesment is based on KRA's where a spreadsheet keeps track of your projects Spreadsheet is only as useful if your manager completes it as you complete your projects, since spreadsheet is password protected and read-only engineer can't really utilize it. Promotion of incompetent engineers to team leads/project managers Poor decision making from senior management Organization stucture constantly changes Some managers do not communicate efficiently and can be condescending, rude, and back-stabbing Center manager seems to not be concentrating on the entire center, but rather still wants to do his old job Some managers are afraid to communicate with the customer. A question that should be a couple minute phone call or webex turns into a elaborate presentation that doesn't get sent to the customer, but ends up being shown during the weekly status meeting. Not only has time and money been wasted, at the end the engineer gets the blame not the project leader/manager. Some project leaders can't think for themselves, they need a buddy "tied" to their side Inability of some team leaders/project managers to utilize experienced engineers to sit in on important internal or customer meetings. Retaliation in some situations

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