They sucker you in by promising opportunity, decent pay, and growth
Pros
The most enjoyable part was the people I worked alongside and who worked for me. I cannot say enough positivity about the people who keep the lights on. The benefits were standard for a corporate environment. The compensation was all over the place, but I was paid decent for my time.
Cons
Management hammers down unrealistic expectations and goals that you personally to meet, which is impossible given their timelines without working 60-80+ hours a week. The company rather would spend tens of millions of dollars on botched acquisitions of other related companies to artificially inflate their stock prices instead of increasing their workforce to compensate for the increased workload. Nothing is structured, nothing is uniform, and nothing makes any sense. The technology is a hodge-podge of "let's just make it work and deal with it later" solutions to keep upper management happy. Then when that solution is no longer viable, the mid-level management gets the third degree for not being given enough resources to implement a proper solution, despite the warnings to upper management that the solution was not viable long-term. They don't care. As long as upper management gets their bonuses and shareholders see gains, they don't care how it gets there, but don't call them out on it, or you'll find yourself on the unemployment line. They fired me for "unsatisfactory performance", but I never had a single review, performance improvement plan, nor was I still on probation at 10 months post hire. It was coincidentally the day I was about to ask for a LOA to help my family care for my father-in-law who was dying of cancer at the time, which was disclosed to upper management a week prior to my dismissal. They're so disorganized and disconnected that when I emailed them and request they just send shipping labels to me to return my work equipment (as I already had the shipping boxes to return them), they instead shipping two giant boxes overnight with labels inside, wasting even more money. Further, when the state unemployment office received the paperwork on my discharge, they found insufficient evidence of wrongdoing on my part and approved my unemployment claims. Stay away from this company, I passed up a cushy IT Director job at a private university that paid $10k less a year to work for Transcat and I regretted it every day. I've worked for many companies with networks and environments much larger and never had the enormity of issues and red flags as Transcat. Since leaving the company in late 2024, their stock tanked 40%, further highlighting the fragility and mismanagement going on from the top of the company.
